1960'ların Çin'inde geçen garip bir aşk hikayesini konu alan, 1993 yapımı bir David Cronenberg filmi. Jeremy Irons'ın tapınılası bir oyunculuk sergilediği filmde, John Lone* da takdire şayan bir performans göstermiştir.
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Song Liling: Under the robes, beneath everything, it was always me. Tell me you adore me.
Rene Gallimard: How could you, who understood me so well, make such a mistake? You've shown me your true self, and what I love was the lie, perfect lie, that's been destroyed.
Song Liling: You never really loved me.
Rene Gallimard: I'm a man who loved a woman created by a man. Anything else simply falls short.
Türkçe'ye Çoğunlukla zararsız ismiyle çevrilmiş olan Douglas Adams kitabı.
(bkz: the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy)
Girişiyle olayı bitirir:
"Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though."