it's waaaay better at CHINESE character building, ye wenjie is exquisitely done, she's a real human being. but you'll run smack in the obvious limitations of filming a culturally significant story in that specific country where culturally significant stories always are given a state approval. you'll see very subtle hints. and anything non-chinese is a joke in term of character development. they might as well called them white person 1, white person 2....
and it doesn't look as good. But the dialogues are better.
so, mixed bag. i saw that one first and i think it's a better adaptation. it's a chinese story, don't forget.
the netflix one is very underdeveloped, you're just running from scene to scene without a real sense of why.
