Everything was going well for Ah Bo (Stephy Tang) until recently. After graduating from college, Ah Bo decided to open a shop with her long-time boyfriend, Ah Jun (Stephen Wong Ka Lok), thinking that she would eventually marry Jun when everything has been set up and running smoothly.
One day, Bao met her old classmate Kei Kei (Alice Zeng). Kei Kei, being smitten by Ah Jun; decided to steal Ah Jun for her own, not caring about Ah Bo's feelings. It turned out that not only Bo has lost her love of a lifetime, she also loses her shop.
Ah Bo's good friend, Ah Man (Leila Tong) and long time boyfriend, Ah Fung (Terry Wu). In the meantime, Ah Fung is also two-timing Ah Man with another woman. Although Ah Man does love Ah Fung, she takes him for granted and thinks that he will never leave her. She is also selfish and doesn't want to be tied to a single relationship.
After the break-up, Ah Bo found a job as a make-up artist in the mall. Her boss Ah Kuen broke the news of her engagement and invited everyone out to celebrate. At the party, Ah Bo realized that her boss’s really young fiancee is very familiar. She recognized him as her old neighbor Ah Keung(Alex Fong) but Ah Keung keeps pretending that he doesn’t know Ah Bo.
A month later, Ah Kuen’s wedding was suddenly canceled. Bo found out from coworkers that Ah Kuen’s life savings were all stolen from the fiancee, who also disappeared. Ah Bo unexpectedly met Ah Keung on the streets. Ah Keung already has a new target, Tiffany (Suki Tsui). He finds Ah Bo following him. Ah Bo hires Ah Keung to deceive Kei Kei and let her have a taste of her medicine.
One day Ah Keung met his ex-girlfriend, Ah Yun (Linda Chung). Ah Yun told Ah Keung that her family will move to Singapore. Although Ah Keung had deceived Ah Yun's sister's money, but they weren't angry with him now.
As an experienced liar, Ah Keung successfully courted Kei Kei. Being abandoned by Kei Kei, Ah Jun decided to make up with Ah Bo. But Ah Bo has no more feelings for Ah Jun because deep in her heart, she unknowingly fell in love with Ah Keung.
Ah Man finally felt tired and decided to set up a stable relationship with Ah Fung. But Ah Fung tells Ah Man that he wants to break up. In the past 6th months, Ah Fung was actually secretly dating his co-worker’s girlfriend Ah Min (Miki Yeung). Ah Fung finally decided to let go of Ah Man and chose Ah Min for a new relationship. Shocked and feeling betrayed, Ah Man never thought she would be the one to be played.
In the game of love, there are no rules. Just like in this world, there are no strange love, only strange people.
My comments:
Alex Fong, Stephy Tang and director Patrick Kong reunite again! I expected something bad because their last movie, Love Is All Around, absolutely irked me but L For Love, L For Lies is a better viewing experience. At least compared to their last movie, L For Love, L For Lies didn’t have odd moments. I cannot explain why I like it since I found 90% of the characters unlikeable and Stephy’s character annoyingly naïve (although sympathetic). It still carries the message that love sucks…everyone cheats and lies in love. No one is trustworthy but yourself. Pessimistic huh? Not only that, just when we think that it’s a semi-happy ending for Stephy, the director cruelly bursted our bubble at the last scene…oh man! It has some heart-wrenching moments, so I’ll admit that I did cry. It’s too bad that Stephy never knew all the things Alex did for her. I guess that’s life. Love is about timing and I think they played that point well.
I think that everyone performed good although I still think that Stephy is not a very good actress or maybe I'm bothered by the way she talks ( it seems that I say the same thing about young generation actresses...). Alex managed to give viewers some surprises by acting as a conman, very different from his usual goody, clean and positive characters. The best acting out of the bunch is the most experienced one, Leila Tong…
2 comments:
This was a romantic movie wasn't it? At the end it shows that nothing is perfect even when you think it is. Alex as a con man was not convincing, seeing how he's always Mr. Nice Guy in movies. But anyways, not a bad movie. There were A LOT of stars that guest appeared so not bad. :)
Nice movie, but showed too many "stories" in one movie. Too much dilemma going on.
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