I strongly recommend that you must watch the Shanghai edition. The Mandarin version sounds really awkward. It's even more neither fish nor fowl to mix a few Shanghainese in Mandarin, just like you have to add a few English words to speak Chinese. Blossoming in Shanghai is a contemporary urban drama directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Hugh, Ma Yili and the new actor.

The play is based on Jin Yucheng's novel of the same name, and the story will revolve around Po. In the early 1990s, when everyone was competing for the upper reaches, Po also became a treasure manager, with both successes and failures, leaving a legend among the Shanghai hipsters. There have been glories, endless streams, men and women, ups and downs, friendship and true feelings of an era.

Drama evaluation

Flowers in Shanghai is Wong Kar-wai's first work adapted from a film into a TV series. There is indeed a very obvious Wong Kar-wai film style in the play. Wong Kar-wai prefers to express a lot of plots in the form of dialogues and lines, just like Ouyang Feng, played by Leslie Cheung in Time Has Changed, who always talks to himself. Mr. Bao, who played by Hugh in "Flowers Bloom in Shanghai", also promoted the plot in this way, which made some netizens who were used to watching fast-paced short videos feel that the plot was very protracted and the pace was too slow.

Such controversy can only be attributed to the fast pace of this era, and many viewers have been unable to calm down and examine every second of the light in the picture to interpret and understand the deep meaning behind each line. The plot of Shanghai Flower Blossom is not procrastinating, and the rhythm points are just right. It is a TV series that needs to be calmed down, not turned over, and it is worth watching carefully.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Blooming Shanghai