2021 · adventure · drama · fantasy
Super Me
Directed by Zhang Chong1h 42m2021
Sang Yu is so exhausted from trying to stay awake. Every time he closes his eyes, a demon chases and kills him in his dreams. One night Sang realizes he has a special power: he can bring treasures from his dreams into reality. Almost overnight, he becomes a rich man. But his wealth also attracts the attention of a ruthless gangster.
Our read: Super Me (2021) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal adventure · drama · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured adventure / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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