Ai de fa sheng lian xi

I had the chance to sit down in 2020 to watch the 2008 movie "My So-Called Love" (aka "Ai de fa sheng lian xi"). Granted, I hadn't even heard about this Taiwanese movie from writer Neko Hsu prior to sitting down to watch it. So I had no idea what to expect, aside from knowing it was a romantic movie.

Well, the movie was adequately entertaining up until the guy left for the army, then it just became a slow-paced trot, and I was quickly losing interest in the storyline. So I can't really claim to be overly impressed or entertained by "My So-Called Love". It took director Leading Li forever to go nowhere, and I ended up turning off the movie about halfway through. I just was fed up with boredom.

The acting in the movie was good, but the actors and actresses were struggling with a lack of a proper storyline, as everything was just so mundane and slow paced. It was intolerable.

Barbie Hsu - playing Cat - really carried herself and the movie quite well with her performance in this 2008 movie. I am not familiar with her, but she really seems to have some talent, and her expressions of love and happiness in the movie seemed so very, very genuine. Just a shame that she had next to nothing to work with in terms of a proper storyline.

I am rating "My So-Called Love" a mere three out of ten stars. I wasn't entertained, and this is not a movie that I can recommend you sit down to watch. Nor is it a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time, nor will I return to it to watch the remaining hour - it just simply wasn't worth the effort.