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Toilet Lesson (2000)
STupid Stupid film that has a soft porn soundtrack- BEWARE
I saw this film on the web. It's about how these art students sabotage their teacher by giving him milk with a laxative. And somehow this holds up the film. Lame. Lame. The acting by the teacher is terrible, and all the students are performing from a very strange and unnatural place. One of the students is porn star turned singer, Kaila Yu, who can't act either. It's a lot of farting aligned with some bad soft core porn music which is supposed to be ironic. A waste of space. This film belongs in the toilet.
My American Vacation (1999)
Great ACTING, Great Story, Great fun! This film should have more buzz!
What a treasure this film is! Too often Asian women are seen as the passive, the unambitious (unless they are portrayed as an ambitious hooker!), the sensual-- filmmaker VV Hsu moves all those assumptions aside in this breakthrough film that should have more press. I was lucky to catch it at a film fest where the reaction was the same all over, "This film should get more attention!" Finally a story that anyone can relate to. A family vacation that is supposed to bring together three generations, but nobody can really get along. Sounds like my family! Tsai Chin is excellent as the matriarch who brings the family together with her tough love attitude! The sisters Ming Na and Ming Yee who bicker and fight like kids cracked me up and the young daughter who is more kept together than the two of them combined paints a perfect and complete picture! The characters are rich, the acting is enviable, and the story is perhaps timeless! The cinematography is sweeping and gorgeous. It ultimately is a story about love, forgiveness and togetherness. Well done! My heart is warmed! 10/10!