The Equation of Love and Death (2008)

The Equation of Love and Death (2008)

Release Date: 18 September 2008 (China)
Quality: DVDRip
Language: Mandarin
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Cao Baoping
Company: Huayi Brothers, Sundream Motion Pictures
Movie Info: IMDb
Cast: Xun Zhou, Chao Deng, Hanyu Zhang, Baoqiang Wang, Yanhui Wang
Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance
Watch: Trailer
Size: 698MB

Plot: Kuming known as a city of spring all year around, people were leading hard lives. Hobos set foot in drug trades wishing to make a proud coming-back-home; policeman dug into crime cases while trapped in divorce; poet in old fashioned sunglass jumped off the bridge committing suicide. However in the cruel reality, there are people who believe and expect love could save them, bring hopes to their life.

Li Mi, a young taxi driver who has been waiting for her disappeared fiancé Fang Wen while receiving his letters randomly, encountered two male drug dealers, the older one named Qiu Huogui experienced and cruel, the other young man Qiu Shuitian innocent and looking for his adorable girl named Xiao Xiang. At the same time, a drug deal called Ma Bing partnered with his girlfriend Ai Feifei coming to Kuming for the last deal and anticipating a brand new life, got the suicide poet fall down on their car unexpectedly, while being witnessed by Qiu Huogui and Qiu shuitian. Connected by the death of a poet, Li Mi, Fang Wen ,Ai Feifei and these two criminals were involved in a crime and a confusing case.

The scene starts with Li Mi in a loose male style shirt, counting and reasoning the number of letters received from Fang Wen, figuring a stubborn girl. Both Li Mi and Fang Wen were ordinary people who had failed in University National Entrance Exam. Fang Wen had said the only luck thing in his life was having Li Mi by his side. However their marriage were disagreed by Li Mis parents. Leaving a promise of coming back to run a tiny shop together, Fang Wen left Li Mi to make money, while Li Mi became a taxi driver. Fang Wen had never showed up again except for sending Li Mi letters telling her every detail in his daily life and his efforts to come back to her in Kuming; Li Mi believed in him, and waited with hopes; she lived by herself, without dating any man in four years.

Life was bitter to a young female taxi driver, her car broke down on the street; she went into trouble with aggressive strangers; she was carjacked by two nervous and desperate drug dealers. They robbed Li Mi and forced Li Mi to a remote countryside. She was totally freaked out at the beginning. However when she found they took and lost her magazine filled with all the Fang Wens photos, she was enraged and gained enormous courage burst out shouting at them to find the magazine back to her. But she was just a skinny girl that she was put in worse danger. Cleverly and bravely Li Mi broke her hand by the car door on purpose and pointed at the bloody police number 110 written by her wounded finger on the out side of the car door to the man worked at the gas station. When Qiu Huogui left the car for a while, the young man Qiu Shuitian asked her to tell the girl who Li Mi described as Xiaoxiang working in a Sichuan Restaurant near Li Mis apartment, that wait for him. He walked out of the car, and let Li mi go. Qiu Huogui failed to catch her car. She escaped.