7 Dreams

From AsianMediaWiki

User Rating

Nobody voted on this yet

Profile

• Movie: 7 Dreams
• Chinese:
• Director: Hao Ning
• Writer:'
• Producer: Hao Ning
• Release Date: 2009
• Runtime:
• Language: Mandarin, Cantonese
• Country: China

Notes

Movie was inspired by Stephen Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time.

Plot

Zheng Xiao-yang has been out of university for years but his history degree is practically worthless now that the local museum has been converted into a cinema, and so he spends all his time lounging around the house, driving his parents to despair. But while he doesn’t have a job, he does have a dream. A nightmare, in fact. In it he sees seven atomic bombs go off, blanketing the planet with radioactive fallout and annihilating humanity. Every time he closes his eyes he is plagued by this dream, and because he can’t get a good night’s sleep, he is starting to fall apart.

Researching his dream, he becomes obsessed with the number seven. China’s first emperor, Qin Shi-huang, dreamt of seven vessels that he took as a sign urging him to conquer the six neighboring nations; the Pharoah of the Old Testament dreamt of seven ears of wheat being eaten by seven cows, predicting a famine...the number seven is everywhere! As Zheng becomes obsessed with his research, suddenly and unexpectedly, his dream changes.

Now, an astronaut appears in his dream, telling him that they have been looking for him for a long time from their base on the moon and that he must save the world. Zheng laughs at this lunacy – his dreams are so colorful he should become a web novelist. But the astronaut gives him a series of predictions that all come true: Ronaldo is injured in a football game and the premier of a small country is assassinated. Zheng starts to believe.

The astronaut later tells Zheng that in 2010, nuclear war will break out and the only survivors will be three Chinese scientists on a moon base. The scientists have figured out how to send warning messages to the past, but the method is not perfect and their warning of the seven nuclear explosions has reverberated back and forth through time but, finally, Zheng has heard their warning and he can help them. All he has to do is to alter a few key events and the world will be saved. Zheng, though believes in his words, asks for some stock information before offering help. He makes millions with the tips, but is so excited that he ignores his first mission and irritates the scientists to no end. Only Li Yan-jin, the female member of their team, remembers that years ago Zheng gave her a passionate, albeit slightly deranged, speech about saving the world and she decides that she still believes in him.

Li contacts Zheng by dreams, and convinces him to get in touch with her past self. However, present day Li dismisses him as a lovesick idiot and the future Li has to coach Zheng on how to break through her past self’s shell. Falling for Li, Zheng slowly wins her over and the two engage in part two of their mission: to find an American spy in China and give him secret information he can use to persuade the American president not to retaliate against China when she accidentally launches a missile. They succeed and embark on their third mission: to stop the North Korean premier from boarding a plane that will crash and trigger the nuclear war.

Zheng and past Li struggle to keep the premier off the plane, but nothing goes according to plan, including the fact that the premier’s son falls in love with Li and proposes. However, this turns out to be the last chance Zheng can use to stop the premier from boarding the plane. Faced with the dilemma of choosing between proclaiming his feelings to Li or saving the world, Zheng chooses the latter. Li is disappointed with him and accepts the premier’s son’s proposal and Zheng keeps the premier from boarding.

And that is the moment when the world is saved, and history is altered: there was never a war, Zheng was never a hero, there are no scientists on the moon. Everything is back to normal, except for the fact that Zheng’s parents are alarmed to find a large sum of money in his bank account and they report him to the police. The cops drag him in for an interrogation where Zheng is unable to explain how he got the money, until, suddenly, the beautiful Li Yan-jin appears at the door of the investigation room. But is she

Cast