It is based on one of my favorite stoey of Nguyen Nhat Anh and im a big fan of him. Slight difference from the novel as he is still loving the mother in the movie but he has feeling for the daughter in the novel, which what i prefer. He deserves happiness and im not a big fan of the mother, she is selfish, shallow and dont know how to appreciate true love. But the the movie is great, acting is far better than ecpected, music is good and the scene is spot on. It is 90% of what i wpuld expect how the novel look like. Though Victor Vu made Ha Lan the good person who finally realise Ngan's love in the end, i still prefer how it ends in the novel.
Overal, great movie to watch, specially fan of Nguyen Nhat Anh's novels.