My So-Called Love (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version) DVD Region All
Barbie Hsu (Actor)
| Eddie Peng Yu Yan (Actor)
| Joseph Chang (Actor)
| Tung Ming Hsiang (Actor)
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Kevin Kennedy
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June 29, 2009
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June 29, 2009
Barbie Hsu is good, but...
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"My So-Called Love" is one of the most frustrating and, ultimately, disappointing films I've seen in recent months. Barbie Hsu stars as Cat, a gorgeous girl from a broken home. She flees her home when her stepfather gives her unwanted attention, moving in with her boyfriend, the dutiful Liam (Peng Yu Yan). All goes well with the young couple, until Liam gets drafted into the army just as Cat is entering university. Before Liam departs, Cat asks him to define "love". He offers a perfect description: "Love means giving of yourself. Always giving." Just right! But after Liam departs for the military, Cat reveals a selfish and self-destructive nature that is almost the opposite of "always giving". To earn money for her education, she turns to selling her body for cash and becomes involved with a married man. Watching Cat's self-hatred consume her makes for difficult viewing and the film's unresolved ending is unsatisfying. Indeed, after Liam's beautiful description of love mentioned above, the film spends the next 90 minutes leading to this response from Cat: "Perhaps ... there's no answer to my question [of 'what is love']. Instead, it's the ability after each painful experience to encourage each other to speak our mind." Oh, please. Unfortunately, this kind of empty pseudo-philosophizing is characteristic of this film's pretentious script and excessively arty cinematography. On the plus side, beautiful Barbie Hsu's performance is compelling and Mavis Fan's film score is brilliant, perfectly suited to the movie's atmosphere. Unfortunately, those positives are squandered by the incoherent story and sophomoric script. |
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Rhoda
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April 10, 2009
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April 10, 2009
Barbie's first daring role!!
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Barbie's looks is really very innocent. It's hard to envisioned her playing a young prostitute. On her first time of being one, she played her role being a novice. The more she gets to go with Eddie Peng the more mature scene you can expect. I think she did her acting well. Eddie Chang played his role pretty well too. I was expecting less actually but he is really good. This film is worth buying. |
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