When she leaves the building, he must secretly follow her with his sketchpad to maintain his creativity in order to complete his current project.

Angela convinces Rick to revisit the remembered locations with her to recreate their memories and interview the people there to gain information about their forgotten past as research for her new book about regaining memory as opposed to her usual books advising people to forget.

They meet two flower sellers who remember Rick and Angela buying white daisies there on New Year's Eve 1999.

"[4] Reviewer Kozo of lovehkfilm.com wrote, "The set-up for this high-schooler romance is exceptionally elaborate, promising at hidden plot points not revealed until the final ten minutes of the film.

"[6] The review of the film on sogoodreviews.com reads, "By the time director Alan Mak and writer Felix Chong reveals their high concept for Silent Love, you firmly realize what a missed opportunity this romance was.

An entire different cast & crew of note should attempt this love story again, preferably one headed by Derek Yee and not do what Mak does here, which is a whole bucket of wrongs.

Some genre standards are followed (she's "quirky" & he's shallow, they hate each other when they first meet etc), but the movie explores some new ground that makes it stand out - especially the surprisingly downbeat ending.

"[8] Author Gabriel Chong called it one of Alan Mak's "youth-oriented movies", along with Rave Fever (1999) and Final Romance (2001).