mardi, septembre 26, 2006  Sometime back in the 1990s, I watched this movie starring Chris where-is-he-now? O'Donnell and Drew Barrymore, where she is clinically depressed and needs to be hospitalised. Chris breaks her out of the hospital, and they go on a tour of the USA before her illness catches up with her and she attempts suicide.A rather sober movie, but I remember that it was completely illogical and completely nonsensical because the girl would just be leading the guy by the nose throughout the movie. Barrymore would decide to dance on top of a car, and then O'Donnell would be half-willingly dragged into doing the same. She would want to party all night, and he would willingly follow her. Qualifier: not that there's anything wrong with the girl taking the lead in romance; I just had a problem with his spine completely disappearing into thin air. That's exactly the same problem I have with Para Para Sakura - yes, stop laughing your asses off, I actually borrowed the VCD and watched it. Aaron Kwok plays a colour-blind dance instructor who's strangely mesmerised by a slightly insane Cecilia Cheung, who plays a "free-spirited" rich spoilt brat. Her "free spirit" (imagine me using Dr Evil quotations marks as I write this) generally translates into loud talking, lots of hair-flouncing, Aaron bullying, and generally getting her way all the time. The thin plot: she jumps on stage while he's performing, he suddenly sees her in a shade of pink. She disappears. Another chance meeting a day later. She disappears. Then she reappears in his dance class and hires him as her bodyguard. She's rich, and engaged to some Japanese guy. After everything goes to hell in a handbasket, he declares his love for her just before she marries the guy. She rebuffs him, and he walks away, dejected. But wait! She leaves him a secret message to meet her! He goes to meet her, but meets her husband instead, who tells him an elaborate tale of being bethrothed at birth (retch) and how both their companies share prices were going up blah blah blah zzzz. So of course they'll quietly divorce two days later, but hey, otherwise she's all yours, buddy! I can see the appeal to Kwok's shy and retiring character (a dance fitness instructor who's shy and retiring?!), but the obvious clash in personalities just grated on me the whole entire movie long. I wanted to shoot her for being so out of control and wild, and I wondered what was wrong with him that he liked being bossed around all the time on inconsequential matters. The acting was overdone, the special effects were cheesy without being funny (like Kung Fu Hustle funny), the plot was thin as triple-boiled soup, and I just wasted two hours of my life on it. I didn't even like the Para Para dance. Not as catchy as The Macarena. [Para Para 什么？] |
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