''Star Appeal'' (星星相吸惜) is a 2004 Chinese gay-themed science fiction film (first released for public exhibition in the United States in 2008), by Chinese film director

Cui Zi'en Cui Zi'en (), born 1958, in Harbin in the People's Republic of China, is a film director, producer, film scholar, screenwriter, novelist and an outspoken LGBT activist based in Beijing. He graduated from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences wi ...

. The film was recorded on video rather than film, using a series of long, static shots. The main characters are ''E.T.'' and his Chinese friend, Xiao Bo, and the film reveals the full-frontal nudity of both characters.Queering Chinese Comrades - Through the Lens of Director Cui Zi
Audrey Tse. ''www.academia.edu''. Retrieved: 16 March 2014.

Plot

Coming alone from Mars to the Earth, ET is brought home by Xiao Bo. Xiao Bo’s girlfriend, Wenwen, does not believe that ET is an alien, while Xiao Bo’s boyfriend, Xiao Jian, is simply skeptical. However, Xiao Bo is convinced of ET’s identity. He is very attentive to ET, enthusiastically showing him what the Earth looks like. In order to distract Xiao Bo from ET, Wenwen masquerades as someone from Jupiter. Her plan doesn’t work, however, so to get revenge, Xinxin declares that she’ll have a mixed Earthling-Martian baby with ET. She brings ET home, teasing him and trying to persuade him to have a baby with her, but instead, ET ends up losing consciousness. Coming to his rescue, Xiao Bo inadvertently utters “I love you”, a phrase also used by Martians. Upon hearing this, ET recovers consciousness. ET used to survive merely on sunlight, never taking any food or drink. It is for Xiao Bo’s sake that ET tastes coffee for the first time. He gradually experiences various aspects of life on Earth, learning how to love as well as what the physical limitations of humans are. On the eve of his return to Mars, ET uses the same ultimate human way of expressing love, and makes love to Xiao Bo. Through this, he dedicates his Martian love to Xiao Bo. Not long after ET has left Earth, Xiao Bo, who was “infected” by a certain Martian quality during lovemaking, returns to where they first met, and discovers the way to Mars.

Cast

Yu Bo Yu Bo (; born July 22, 1976) is a Chinese actor. Biography Yu was born on July 22, 1976 in Shenyang, Liaoning. From 1996 to 1999 he worked at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing as a security guard. He entered the Beijing Film Academy i ...

... Xiao Bo * Guifeng Wang ... E.T. (as Gui Feng Wang) * Xiwen Zhang ... Wen Wen (as Xi Wen Zhang) * Jian Hou ... Xiao Jian

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Filmmaker Cui Zi'en on dGenerate Films website
2004 films 2004 independent films 2000s science fiction drama films Chinese independent films Chinese LGBT-related films Chinese science fiction drama films Films about extraterrestrial life Films directed by Cui Zi'en Films set in China Gay-related films LGBT-related science fiction drama films 2000s Mandarin-language films Mars in film 2004 LGBT-related films {{LGBT-drama-film-stub

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