After that, the hero starts to dream. In his dreams he meets a Chinese girl whose boyfriend committed suicide by falling off a building not long ago. She can't figure out why her ex-boyfriend killed himself, and spends her nights wandering through the jungle of the office building where he worked before he died. Perhaps out of curiosity, the hero promises the Chinese girl in his dream to help her find out why her ex-boyfriend killed himself.
These are not the story of a single night's dream, but a continuous progression of several night's dreams. The hero goes to see his psychiatrist, and in the highly developed capitalist rice country, people grow up with their own psychiatrists, and grow up taking sleeping pills prescribed to him by the psychiatrist, so the hero has always slept well.
The psychiatrist told him that everything was fine with him, and that his psychological reaction to the death of the cat was normal.
The hero had to face the promise he made to the Chinese girl in his dream alone, and he later came up with the idea of asking the Chinese girl to collaborate with him in playing out the scene of their last date, so as to determine why her boyfriend, who had rushed off without leaving a word, had left her in such a lonely and isolated night.
The Chinese girl is such a soft, fragile, quiet, literary character, she doesn't hug her boyfriend y, she doesn't gush and chatter when she sees him because he's afraid he'll tire her out by talking, and she and her boyfriend go to a restaurant for coffee, not dinner.
In the restaurant where the Chinese girl and her ex-boyfriend had their last meal, our handsome hero, the big American sunshine boy, with the hatred of the heroine for not allowing him to eat a burger, threw out the answer to the question, "I'm getting it on with your best friend! "The heroine calmly replies, "I don't have any friends," and the hero is flabbergasted, "Then I'm screwing some other girl, we've already slept together, she's got a great body, and I like her a lot, and I want to be with her." The heroine was glum, "Why would he do that, he told told me he was saving that for his wedding night, he hugged me and kissed me but didn't touch my boobs" (no one laughed considering the movie started not long ago and the fans were so innocent).
As the relationship with the Chinese girl deepens further, the hero even takes the place of his dead ex-boyfriend to make a previously unspoken promise to take the Chinese girl dancing with him on the next rainy day.......
The dream story continues on and on, while outside the dream, the hero is nothing more than a New York City IT man
The dream was good, but it left him feeling stuck. He started running marathons, stopped taking his sleeping pills, and started staying at the office every day and every night, even though there was no deadline.
His partners couldn't stand it, so they gave him the opportunity to take a trip to Shanghai as a way to unwind and regroup, and they asked him to take more photos. He sensed a Chinese girl in the city, but couldn't wait for that encounter.
But yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, on the way to the airport, the hero attracted the store to collect the roll of photos taken on the fly, and surprisingly, he received the wrong one, and the heroine in the photo is the hero's dream girl!
The plane flew back to the United States, due to the hero's diligence overtime, their company was a large company to see, they are going to be rich overnight. But the hero just shriveled up. So his partner gives him another business trip to Hangzhou.
In Hangzhou, he catches the back of a Chinese girl pedaling her bicycle through the crowded streets, and he tries desperately to catch up with her, finally stopping her in a narrow alley. At this point the dream-tortured, disoriented hero is no longer sunny; like a foreigner accosting a Chinese girl on the main street, he comes up for air and says, "I know you, I've seen you in my dreams ......."
The real-life version of this dream lover version - or the cottage version - with a messy ponytail, playing a "world's most boring job", behavior and behavior, often to eat two pounds of steamed buns, but also can not stand firm in the But the Shanzhai version of Dream Love is full of But the cottage version of the dream is full of vitality, and she asks the hero why he showed her the wrong photos, which have disrupted her life, and she can't stop imagining "another her in the world". So, she accompanies him to Shanghai, and together they search for the mysterious object of their dreams.
They searched the streets of Shanghai, they went to the attraction store that gave them the wrong photo, and they also went to the place where the dream girl in the photo took a picture, but they couldn't find any trace of the dream girl.
They returned to the hotel tired. During the night, the cottage version of the Chinese girl shows a shocking ability to do a parody show, and she seeks out the door of the hero by assuming the likeness of the dreamy Chinese girl, based on the descriptions that have come out of his mouth over the past many days. She almost fooled our hero, if not for the unsteady heels exposed off her ......
But over the past few days to get along with the little by little, the cottage version of the Chinese girl's real, free-spirited, unrestrained gradually conquered the hero's heart, as well as on the dream lover's deep thoughts, which all have made the hero confused and obsessed. He holds the girl in his arms, whether she is a cottage or a dream, and kisses her, first on the upper lip, then on the lower lip, with the knots in his throat rising and falling, and the words coming out of his mouth.
The cottage version rushed into the bathroom, locked the door, turned on the shower, let the water wet all over the body, she rushed to the door of the hero magnificently shouted "You heard me, it's raining! You said the next time it rains, take me to dance in the rain, do you remember!"
On the last day of her stay in Shanghai, the cottage version takes the hero to her childhood secret garden, a revisit. Her father passed away in a hurry when she was ten years old due to a rare brain disease, and his brain was made into a specimen and collected in the hospital. The hospital is now empty, leaving only some cabinets with specimens on display. The cottage version squatted in front of the specimen of Dad's brain, pouring out a large number of feelings about memory.
In the park bench, the afternoon slanting sun sprinkled all over the grass, the tired cottage version lying beside the hero, despairing to say that the heart of the hidden fear, "Dad's disease may be inherited to me, even if I do not have to, my child may have", her hands will cover her face, blocking the brilliant sunshine, the hero went to hold her helpless hands, and the fingers finally intertwined, ah, entwined. And at the same time, the hero feels the call of the dream is even stronger, if he does not find her it will be too late ......
The hero returned to New York, sold the company and became a young millionaire. Accompanied by his inner pain, drunkenly living his life. The cottage version of a morning call, so that he once again returned to Shanghai.
This time, he successfully finds the office complex in his dream, and is reunited with the cottage heroine in the night. But this time the cottage version has been transformed into an authentic Mordor girl, dress temperament and dream version do not want to go up and down, except in the appetite of the usual booze. The two of them eat at a 24-hour restaurant with a view, catching up on old times. Afterward the hero rattles off a story about a closet boy to the heroine at the table, which ends with the boy's mom being swept to her death by her dad for tying up her concubine, a **** that took 32 bullets.
Then the boy is sent to his Chinese-speaking grandmother's house and starts raising a kitten that his mom left behind until the kitten becomes an old cat and eventually a dead cat. The boy, who has grown up well, begins to have dreams with a Chinese girl who has lost her boyfriend ...... (at this point there is a subjective shot that echoes the one at the beginning)
As dawn breaks, the girl in the cottage says goodbye to the hero and goes to work, leaving behind a cell phone number and an MP3 with the words she wants to say to the hero. . The original cottage version of the heart has fallen in love with the tall and handsome male protagonist, she hopes that the male protagonist can also have a trace of attachment left on the side of the bitter waiting and waiting for their own, in that case, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, she will also go all out to participate in the competition. However, the hero's answer disappointed her.
She tells the hero another important piece of information, that she has found the dream girl who looks exactly like herself - her twin sister who was separated as a child (at this point there is a subjective shot echoing the one at the beginning of the scene) - and writes him a hospital room number.
The hero runs furiously to the hospital, but it's too late. The dreamy Chinese girl lies quietly on a white bed, unconscious and unresponsive. The white-haired, kind foster mother said, "You're finally here." Yes, the girl's story is the same as what the hero dreamed of, no other friends, ex-boyfriend suddenly committed suicide and has been mentally depressed ever since. Then she is found passed out in front of a print-shop, followed by the discovery of a rare brain disease and rapidly deteriorating health.
Her adoptive mother discovers her diary, which is a description of a dream that belongs to her daughter as much as it does to the hero. Her brain reacts only when her adoptive mother reads the diary to her, and that time when her sister, whom she has never met, visits her. Now, the hero held her hand as well, and the instrument chirped, and she knew that the man she had waited so long for had come.
What follows is a set of several seconds of following shots, with the hero's feet darting across a number of rooms. (At this point voices are heard murmuring around the room that Daniel Wu's twins are coming out, I sweat!!!) Our hero's dream doppelganger finds the heroine in an empty office building, in front of a glass curtain wall, and beyond their world is a dead, alienated cityscape. Huge cracks appear in the floors, curtain walls, ceilings, and hanging clocks, like news photos of dry, cracked land in Yunnan, with mold corroding from every corner. The hero pulls the heroine outward to escape, and in the garden square of the office jungle, rain falls as they express the passionate love that twists and turns in their hearts in a highly expressionistic dance.
The screen goes black for two seconds, and an off-screen voice inserts, "I went to a funeral." Then there's a set of landscape shots, with the hero sent to the mountains and water (is it the Three Gorges or the Longqing Gorge?). He says, "Later, I learned an old Chinese phrase", followed by a few seconds of waiting, (everyone is guessing what the phrase is), and a set of running water shots continue with the voice-over, "The dead are like this, do not give up day and night" (a very obvious laugh, I do not know). (an obvious laugh, I don't know why, probably because the movie theater was too cold).
Finally, the camera returns to New York, and a cottage version of the Chinese girl appears in the shot.