Hmmmm… A China-friendly remake of a Mel Gibson romantic comedy starring Andy Lau. Released on Chinese Valentine’s Day.Not exactly ticking off points on my must-see checklist.Luckily, What Women Want/我知女人心 was a Dynasty film.As well it should have been.So at least I could vent my frustrations in real time without fear of offending anyone.Which is good for me, because I found the film particularly frustrating.
That said, t he film wasn’t really that bad. Of course, it wasn’t goodeither.***The film’s worst aspect is that it’s thoroughly okay. It’s not terrible, but it’s virtually no good either.****In all cheap copies, there’s something… not quite right, and What Women Want/我知女人心 is no exception.**There’s no sex in this remake.* But hey, what part does sexplay in romance between adults in their 40s, right?
There are 1.3 billion people in China because the Party issued them. That’s how they got here. Now pull up your pants.
Sex is a no-no in China film. Because CSARFT says so.
Which serves only to utterly ruin the secondary romance in **What Women Want/我知女人心. By keeping the beginning and end of that subplot’s arc, but excising the middle, the remake becomes unintentionally farcical.**
No one has sex in this movie.
So why do I feel like I got screwed by spending $ to see it???
No one even kisseseach other until the last scene, and a closing door keeps us from seeing even that.
Welcome to 21 century Chinese cinema: No physical contact allowed!!! Prurience is prohibited!!!
Drinking, however, is not, and the two protagonists in **What Women Want/我知女人心 drink like they’re trying to become naturalized citizens of the Republic of Ireland.**
This only serves to make the film that much more ridiculous, since we all know that alcohol is the oldest sexual lubricant known to humanity.
I don’t understand the hypothetical appeal of watching platonic, alcoholic, middle-aged people acting in stupid and uninteresting ways.
Maybe because I live that movie every day of my wretched life.
***What Women Want/我知女人心* is lazy, uninspired, not very entertaining, and (thankfully) almost wholly forgettable.**
This film would have been muchmore interesting if they made Andy less like Mel’s character and more like Mel Gibson now:
“Who f@#$ing cares what women want? They should all be beaten with baseball bats!!!”
Now thatwould be funny…
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