Lok is a recovering schizophrenic who yearns for love. One day, he encounters the young and beautiful Yan and quickly falls in love with her. The pair develops a relationship that is beyond their wildest dreams.

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Beyond the Dream (2020)

I don't mind, how about you?

★ 6.9/10 July 2, 2020 120 min

DramaRomance

Director: Kiwi Chow Kwun-Wai  ·  Writers: Kiwi Chow Kwun-Wai, Felix Tsang Chun-Wing

Lok is a recovering schizophrenic who yearns for love. One day, he encounters the young and beautiful Yan and quickly falls in love with her. The pair develops a relationship that is beyond their wildest dreams.

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Kiwi Chow Kwun-Wai Kiwi Chow Kwun-Wai

Cast

Terrance Lau Chun-Him Terrance Lau Chun-Him Lee Chi-lok Cecilia Choi Cecilia Choi Yan-yan / Yip Nam Nina Paw Hei-ching Nina Paw Hei-ching Dr. Fung Poon Chan-Leung Poon Chan-Leung Dr. Simon Kenneth Cheung Moon-Yuen Kenneth Cheung Moon-Yuen Joe Cheung Pak-Kong Cheung Pak-Kong Board Member of the Disciplinary Committee Zhang Wanfen Zhang Wanfen Board Member of the Disciplinary Committee Stephen Tsui Sin-Tsang Stephen Tsui Sin-Tsang Ex-mentally ill patient Jam Tsang Jam Tsang Wedding Guest in Dream

User Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
CinemaSerf February 25, 2023
★ 7/10

Now you have to stick with this because the start is not very enticing. We see the usual pretty boy, floppy-haired, HK lad "Lok" (Chun-Him Lau) meet and fall in love with the rather preppy "Yan Yan" (Cecelia Choi) who lives with her abusive father in an apartment upstairs. The writing looks set on the wall for a rather procedural romance until we discover that "Lok" - an outgoing man who coaches sport to young kids - is a recovering schizophrenic and that not everything in his world is neccessarily real. He is an honest lad at heart, and when he decides it is only fair to alert his gal to his illness, he suffers from a relapse that pits his love for "Yan Yan" against his growing affection for a psychiatry student "Yip" who is trying to use his case to finalise her qualifications. We are slowly drawn into his world of fantasy and confusion; affection and disaffection and I have to say tha…