Review: [Spoilers]

A tragic romance which features Maggie Cheung in the role of Rose, a wealthy young heiress who trades on her beauty and vivacity to pursue her own hedonistic desires. Chow Yun Fat displays the versatility he is noted for in dual roles. The first, Rose's artist brother Charles; the second, in the film's second half, Ga-ming to whom she is drawn at first by his resemblance to her brother.

Rose is introduced as a flighty, frivolous teenager. She loves nothing more than to have a string of men interested in her, playing them along, seeming to avoid any true, deep feelings for any of her swains. This includes the most enigmatic man in her life, her brother Charles. Since their wealthy parents' untimely death years before he seems to have lived for nothing else than Rose's happiness, and it becomes obvious that he has spoiled her. She skates through life and relationships without much thought beyond her own wants and desires, leaving a trail of broken hearts in her wake.

Soon the list of Rose's conquests includes her brother's married and much-older-than-Rose business partner, she almost scuttles his marriage. She has no sense of responsibility or guilt over her actions, while Charles, who is not well, is confused and troubled by her behavior. He seems, however, to lack the desire to make his sister behave responsibly as after a minor scolding Rose is soon back to her man-eating ways.