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IN addition to being a big hit with female urban professionals, the recently released film Perpetual Motion is a main source of feminist discussion. The film’s four main characters are successful career women. One of them, middle-aged Niuniu, discovers that her husband is having an extra-marital affair. She invites her three woman friends - fashion model Qinqin, real estate dealer Ye and artist Lala - one of whom she suspects is emotionally entangled with her husband, to her siheyuan home at Spring Festival. The four talk, comparing emotional experiences and the men they have known. The suspense aspect of the film i.e. which of the women is having an affair with Niuniu’s husband, is superseded by this frank, unequivocal baring of emotions and repressed desires. The
IN addition to being a big hit with female urban professionals, the recently released film Perpetual Motion is a main source of feminist discussion. One of them, middle-aged Niuniu, discovers that her husband is having an extra-marital affair. She invites her three woman friends - fashion model Qinqin, real estate dealer Ye and artist Lala - one of whom she suspects is emotionally entangled with her husband, to her siheyuan home at Spring Festival. The four talk, comparing emotional experiences and the men have known. The suspense aspect of the film ie which of the women is having affair with Niuniu’s husband, is superseded by this frank, unequivocal baring of emotions and repressed desires. The