Overall the movie feels like a Chop Suey with all these forced ingredients thrown in, but without depth and not well cooked.
The director is trying to explore current social issues in a conservative immigrant culture. "Non-conventional" behaviors such as lesbian relationship, single motherhood, older women with younger men relationships are typically shunned upon in a conservative Chinese culture. It's a good idea to talk about these social elements in a new setting, much like Brokeback Mountain in a cowboy culture. However, the characters were not developed well enough to make it believable, particularly the mother and the Vivian characters. The 1993 movie Wedding Banquet (Hsi Yen) by Ang Lee was done much better with the Chinese American culture and gay relationship topic, and funnier.
I have to say it's disappointing. I had such hope when I got the DVD last night since I missed it when it was in the theater.
The director is trying to explore current social issues in a conservative immigrant culture. "Non-conventional" behaviors such as lesbian relationship, single motherhood, older women with younger men relationships are typically shunned upon in a conservative Chinese culture. It's a good idea to talk about these social elements in a new setting, much like Brokeback Mountain in a cowboy culture. However, the characters were not developed well enough to make it believable, particularly the mother and the Vivian characters. The 1993 movie Wedding Banquet (Hsi Yen) by Ang Lee was done much better with the Chinese American culture and gay relationship topic, and funnier.
I have to say it's disappointing. I had such hope when I got the DVD last night since I missed it when it was in the theater.