I love this movie so much

Don't listen to the negative reviews

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Tuya's Marriage was, compared to most of the Asian films I've seen, kind of a letdown. I enjoyed it, but although the movie had a good premise, it didn't have high enough stakes or interesting moments to really catch my attention. The plot followed the title character, a shepherd named Tuya, who is married to her husband Batoer. Batoer, who is disabled, is unable to work as a shepherd, and when an injury also leaves Tuya unable to work, she is forced to divorce Batoer and remarry someone who can provide for him. After numerous men refuse to look after him, Tuya is torn between Baolier, a wealthy, recently-divorced man who works for an oil company, and Shenge, her neighbor whose wife has recently left him. Baolier proves to not be as good of a man as he seems, as Batoer tries to commit suicide and Baolier doesn't tell Tuya about it. Shenge also seems to not be who he seems at first, but turns out to have been digging the well as a source of income for Tuya, even if it meant hurting himself in the process. However, the relationship between Shenge and Tuya, instead of easily coming together, was made difficult by Tuya rejecting him, then accepting his advances, then rejecting him again. I feel like it would've had a bit more closure if the audience knew who she decided to marry, but it was never made clear. I'd only give this movie 3 out of 5 stars—it was okay, but it wasn't amazing by any means.

Last week I watched Tuya's Marriage and I was pretty interested in the the movie. I thought it would be a nice change from my normal genre taste and a nice way to see the culture of the Mongolians. After watching it though, I have to say it was such a boring movie that I wanted to fall asleep half way through it. I thought it was very boring and the story line was just very plain and not interesting. The names all sounded the same to me and I just felt that the everyday life of these people was just a giant melting pot of stuff. The thing that makes me the most upset is the ending. Tuya still meets with the suitors and makes a deal even though she knows that Shenge wants to marry her, but at the end of the movie you see Shenge and Tuya's ex husband fighting about the marriage and we never got to know who she was even marrying. This left me in a state of confusion and it just made me dislike the movie more and more. I would not recommend this movie but I guess it is a nice way of seeing life in Mongolia.

This film was very different than most foreign films that I have seen. At most times during the film I was confused, because it would not really show what actually happened or what the results turned out being. The main character in the film Toya divorces Ba'toer, who then tries to commit suicide. This affects her and her children as well. Toya was in terms of conflict when deciding who her new husband would be. Even though she would be marrying someone else that man would have to promise to look after Ba'toer since he was need for medical care and did not have enough money himself, but many refused to do so. I think Toya wanted the best for Ba'toer after she left him, because he was still an important person to her, but I think she left him for the reason that he didn't have enough money to take care of herself and her children, that is why she goes and seeks for a wealthy man.I did not really like how the movie ended, because it never shows who she ends up being with, and I think this movie would have been better if things were clearer. However, I found it interesting how this film showed life in Mongolia, and this family was not very poor, like seen in most foreign films, they had a lot of animals, and lived in a house. Overall, I did not enjoy this film, as much as I thought I would have. The pacing was really slow, and many aspects of the film to me seemed bad, that is why I would rate this film a 2/5.

Unlike the two faux documentaries which people now associate with Mongolian films, TUYA'S MARRIAGE is a well-acted, intricate and layered story about a strong young woman trying to hold her life together. Very like Gong Li in THE STORY OF QIU JU, Yu Nan plays Tuya, a stubborn and beautiful woman faced with an impossible predicament who must find her way through an onslaught of well-meaning (mostly) but ineffectual men to keep her family together. Tuya's affection for and loyalties to her disabled husband Bater are put to the test when she is forced to find a new husband in order to survive. All along the "obvious" choice, Shenge, her foolish but adorable neighbor, keeps trying to be the hero but falling on his face. Tuya must keep saving the men in her life from near disaster: Bater, Shenge (twice), and even her young son. The film becomes the romance/triangle of one woman and two men - much like JULES AND JIM or even FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (co-written by Wei Lu, who also co-wrote TUYA'S MARRIAGE). At the end of the film, her marriage includes both men, but immediately we see that she must continue saving them from themselves - and keeping everything and everybody together.