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Fung (Tse) has a day job as a postal worker and
a night job as a cleaner. All the while he is profound deaf, due
to an accident a few years ago. As fate has it, he bumps into Jane
Chan (Karena Lam) four times in one day, but the final time is when
Jane had been killed in a car accident. Her spirit (ghost) remains
on Earth because she is not ready to go, and she cajoles Fung to
let her stay at his place. Only he can hear and see her because
at the exact moment she died they were both thinking of each other.
Jane knows that she has only seven days left on
Earth before she must return to the spiritual world. In those last
days, she and Fung become even closer as Jane must inhabit Fung's
body during the day. As a result Fung finds himself falling in love
with her, yet knowing that she is no longer human.
When the spirit guards take Jane back to the other
world, Fung follows them to try to bring her back, or may decide
to stay there with Jane forever. Can their forbidden love hold true,
or must they part?
Different religions have differing views on death
and the afterlife: if you're a Christian, you'll believe a person
will either go to Heaven or Hell; or if you're a Buddhist, you'll
believe a person will go to a Spiritual World awaiting to be reborn
(reincarnated) into our World. No matter what you believe, you'll
find a lot of enjoyment in Tiramisu, simply because it is a good
little film focusing on love, loyalty, regrets and belief.
Although Jane is a rich girl, she is able to find
comfort in the arms of a not-so-rich lad, and between them, they
are able to help each other in ways they couldn't have imagined,
to the point that their love for each other even touched the hearts
of the Spiritual Guards (spirits with no feelings).
You possibly wonder if Jane hadn't died, would
they have enjoyed the wonderful yet extraordinary relationship they
have? Fung doesn't think so either, and his rash (and bold) decision
to enter the Spiritual World to save Jane is a testament of his
love for her.
Though no mention is made about the religion,
you do think that it is a kind of mixture between Christianity and
Buddhism (the Spiritual World is very gothic and European, while
some of the mysticism is quite Eastern). But the focus of the film
is rather on the bizarre relationship between a human and a ghost,
and how the impossible can be made feasible.
Karena Lam is once again superb in Tiramisu, just
as she was in July Rhapsody and Inner Senses. Keep this up, and
she'll be a likely contender for the Best Actress award very soon.
Nicholas Tse remains a very solid and likeable actor, and he is
notably one of the best young HK actors around, with a very bright
future ahead of him (if he doesn't do a James Dean and kill himself
in a car crash first). Both these actors ooze chemistry between
them, and I look forward to seeing them in another film together.
Tiramisu (name for an Italian dessert) is
a very entertaining film, with some nice dance-routines thrown in
for good measure, and is sure to have you rooting for the love-struck
couple.
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