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The Knot

The Knot” is of some significance in being the first joint blockbuster production between Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the first to use a Chinese company for its expansive digital effects work. Boasting a big cast of stars and an ambitious story which takes place in a variety of countries and periods of history, the film certainly bore the marks of a ready made pan-Asian hit. Unfortunately, this did not prove to be the case, and although it performed well in Mainland China, the film floundered badly in other territories, and was not particularly well received by critics.

The story begins in the present day with a young woman (played by Hong Kong starlet Isabella Leong) travelling around various Asian countries pestering her old painter aunt in New York on the phone for details regarding her apparently mysterious uncle. This awkward prompting leads into the main story, related in flashback and beginning in Taipei in the 1940s. It is the story of Qiushui (actor Chen Kun, also in “The Little Chinese Seamstress”), a young English tutor who falls in love with Wang Biyun (Taiwanese popstrel Vivian Hsu), the daughter of a rich dentist whose son he is teaching. Sadly, the amorous couple is parted when Qiushui is forced to flee to the Mainland after the government starts hunting down suspected left wing activists, where he becomes a military doctor.

Moving around the country at an alarming pace, Qiushui finds solace in the company of perky nurse Wang Jindi (Li Bingbing, also in “Wait ‘Til you’re Older”), who slowly wears him down with her astounding decency and honesty. Meanwhile, poor Wang Biyun remains in Taipei, caring for her love’s aging mother and hoping against hope that fate will reunite them, while she herself is pursued by the astoundingly decent and honest Zilu (Hong Kong boy band member Steven Cheung).

Source: http://www.beyondhollywood.com/the-knot-2006-movie-review