Official trailer: So while the story of  “Sealed Off” isn’t popular enough to be adapted itself, Zhang Ailing’s novel “Love in a Fallen City” was and it followed a lot of the same themes of romance and war time and focusing on your own little world of escape. The novel is about a Chinese divorcée and a Malay business man who find love in the midst of family drama and war-torn Hong Kong. To me it’s amusing how light-hearted the trailer is, with light music and the cute scenes, it reads exactly like your typical romance movie. And then you have the explosions. Those explosions just feel so out of place in the commercial with the sweet singing in the background, when you almost forgot that it takes place in a war. That really does not seem to be the focus of the story and the setting of the trailer seems to have a lot of influence on how viewers perceive that. Setting has a lot to do with how the people in the story view it. They may be in the middle of a war but that doesn’t matter because they still have lives to live and if they can escape the harsh realities of the global crisis together then all the better for them. Just as how in “Sealed Off” Zongshen and Cuiyuan, or at least Cuiyuan imagines, talk to fill the void of the fear and uncertainty, The movie focuses on the risks people take to think of something other than harsh realities.