139 minute running time … I made it 10 minutes in before quitting … and I speak Mandarin and have a deep understanding of Chinese culture, even messy Chinese laundromat culture and screwed-up parent-children relationship culture, but I couldn’t bear this… who could sit through TWO HOURS AND NINETEEN MINUTES of this?!? Another terrible recommendation from John Farr, he is really letting me down lately. “The viewer should just surrender to it and enjoy all the breathless fun.” Wrong, not breathless fun, but torture.