OH, I've been wanting to watch this movie for quite some time now and I thank you for reminded me of it and for giving such a compelling critique. I also would like to interest you on a movie I watched months ago and I thought of it when you said "Maybe because it has an Oriental setting, and Western romances set in China tend to be really cheesy, where the locals are relegated to being exoticised ornaments". It is called "The Lover" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101316/ TRAILER: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1368719641/. I watched it on Netflix, where they show it on line.
It is about the torrid romance between a wealthy chinese man and a white girl. It is based on French Indochina around the 1920s (where apparently the whites, even when vulgar or lower class, felt superior to the "chinese" even when they were obviously outclassed and more educated, which I found very interesting and pathetic, but what do you expect for 1929 XD). The romance is not cheesy, but rather realistic for the times and wonderfully erotic. But I admit that the bratty side of the girl, that continued to push the guy over the edge of his dignity and his buttons at times, which made him go a bit crazy, drove me up the wall @_@, I think overall is a very nice story and I recommended %100. I hope you like it ^___^ <3
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Date: 2011-02-18 12:31 am (UTC)I also would like to interest you on a movie I watched months ago and I thought of it when you said "Maybe because it has an Oriental setting, and Western romances set in China tend to be really cheesy, where the locals are relegated to being exoticised ornaments". It is called "The Lover" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101316/ TRAILER: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1368719641/. I watched it on Netflix, where they show it on line.
It is about the torrid romance between a wealthy chinese man and a white girl. It is based on French Indochina around the 1920s (where apparently the whites, even when vulgar or lower class, felt superior to the "chinese" even when they were obviously outclassed and more educated, which I found very interesting and pathetic, but what do you expect for 1929 XD). The romance is not cheesy, but rather realistic for the times and wonderfully erotic. But I admit that the bratty side of the girl, that continued to push the guy over the edge of his dignity and his buttons at times, which made him go a bit crazy, drove me up the wall @_@, I think overall is a very nice story and I recommended %100. I hope you like it ^___^ <3