shoutingagain

Gotta get kick out of main review listing "POINTLESS objections" yet in one of them instead seemingly indicating the objection is valid--the one referencing they DO NOT KNOW each other!! Sure, there's slow character development in movies that work. Not here! What does NOT work is trying to tell a moving love story that involves NO love, only lust. You never see them get to know each other at all. I'm no prude but can be honest about what I'm watching, it's f*&^fest only! He likes what he sees, lusts after her & then we watch them go at it. Love? Don't make me laugh (or disgrace the word)... that is only, AT best, lust! Secondly, add in the fact they both so wildly disrespect each other, words fail to convey. Yes, he tells her at dinner how SHE is now not "marriageable" to him in China due to not being a virgin (yet he some stud I suppose. What the hell is with social acceptances of mistresses in Asia anyway? SCREW that patriarchy!) ..and clearly, I totally trust that crazy sexist misogyny existed in 1929 & maybe today...dunno, it's ridiculous & offensive. Yet she doesn't care, she's the same slut HE is. Then she goes on to disrepect HIM at every turn as well, from the way she speaks "Chinaman" with such awful disdain, you'd think she's banging a dog. WHO would want a child like that? Even some rich pervert should have some small fraction dignity for himself left. Well looks like he does for ONE flash where he slap her (she almost appears to beg for it, so sick there too) --I mean, c'mon! Again, they do NOT KNOW EACH other, they never TALK (if they do, appears filmmakers so not want to let us in, heck, we might miss some more sex). Truly to KEEP using the word "lovemaking" is offensive to those of us who know the meaning, so at least try to stop peddling your soft-to-medium porn by giving it something it is not. Just sex, so please don't make more of it.

and yes, I was trying to seque (using "child) to once again to the most disturbing part NO ONE cares about in this film. She's FIFTEEN so yes, that is rape. They are both more consumed with race, social norms & what others think than RAPE. some 36 (or there within) perv sticking it to some mentally unstable nymph-child nightly is gross, distasteful & unethical. STILL rape which is no light matter. And all this, is REALITY! BAM! Can't gloss it up as some "art" piece, that's a laugh. No matter HOW lovely you try to conceal child statutory in earthly deep cinematography, music photography, lightening & good-looking actors, you are still trying to pass off a pig in lipstick (and calling it beauty). OH and then lastly, kinda hard to also miss oft all the sick premises involved here, also introduced a solid notion of pimping & prostitution (what I guess she was & her Mom & brothers, pimps). Women's groups should've picketed this disgraceful farce trying to pass as film art. .

Doesn't take many more words than this.

IF you want to sit thru 2+ hours of silly implausible fighting--where4 really everyone would be DEAD with first blow but seems to be an inhuman robot-- with NO plot, go right ahead. Don't way you weren't warned.

OH my GOD.....was this a disgrace to call a movie at all, just assemble fighting scenes on your computer, call it a day. Guess no one expect anything anymore & scary to think those rating THIS will be in charge of running our country someday (think they started already). Hard to say...might be tie for worst movie of the year thus far.



Where did the WRITERS go? What a STUPID movie.