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Kevin Kennedy
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February 8, 2010
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February 8, 2010
Wrong-headed hooker flick
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This Terry Tong-directed film offers the absurd message that prostitution can be a good career choice. Country girl Carina Lau comes to Hong Kong from mainland China to stay with her cousin, then learns that her cousin has become a low-rent prostitute. Through the cousin, Carina meets Simon Yam, who supports his lavish lifestyle by working as a male hooker. Smitten by both Simon and his affluence, Carina decides to enter the flesh trade and asks Simon to school her in the 'art'. Why Simon agrees to do so is unclear, but he spends loads of time and money turning Carina into a high-end call girl. Carina then is hired by a tycoon to become his son's personal assistant; her real job is to use her feminine wiles to lure him out of the funk into which he has fallen since his wife's death. Carina succceeds and the son asks for her hand in marriage. [SPOILER ALERT -- SKIP THIS PARAGRAPH IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW THE MOVIE ENDS.] On the eve of their wedding, everything falls apart when it is revealed to the news media that Carina is a hooker. The son gives Carina a blank check as they part company, Simon decides that her really loves Carina, Carina fills in the check for $10 million HK dollars, and Simon and Carina head off to Japan with this fortune to start a restaurant together and live happily ever after. Absurd, right? This movie is not really romantic, it isn't funny, and it is thoroughly amoral. While, from a technical perspective, it is a reasonably well-made film (apart from a ham-handed stab at a lude scene between Simon and a female psychiatrist), the concept upon which the film is based is irredeemably wrong-headed. There are plenty of better movies about prostitution in Hong Kong, including the Shaw Brothers classic "My Name Ain't Suzy" and Herman Yau's recent "True Women for Sale". Stick with them. |
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