Cell Phones

Cell Phone (simplified Chinese: 手机; traditional Chinese: 手機; pinyin: shŏujī) is an award-winning Chinese comedy-drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Ge You, Zhang Guoli, Xu Fan and Fan Bingbing. It was first released on 18 December 2003 in Mainland China, and was subsequently screened

at the Cleveland International Film Festival on 18 March 2005. With a box office earning of over ¥50 million, Cell Phone became the best-selling domestic film in 2003. Written by Liu Zhenyun, based on his own novel of the same title, the film revolves around two successful men whose marriages were wrecked when their wives uncovered their extramarital affairs through traces left in their cellphones. More broadly, the film explores the role of cellphones in interpersonal relationships in modern China, where the rapid development in information technology is having huge impacts on the way people communicate. Sensing something amiss, Fei immediately tries to contact the former but to no avail. When Yan finally reaches home, he is confronted by Yu but insists that he has been with Fei. Yu then uses Yan's cellphone to call Fei, who immediately upon answering blurts out his warning that Yu has