We watched a Cantonese movie tonight called Marriage With a Fool (Duk ga si oi) - a romantic comedy about a young couple who get married and separate soon after. The reason for the split was because the guy, Wah, was spending some time with his childhood neighbour (Josephine) whilst his wife (Bobo) was at work. She wasn't aware of these meetings and she happened to read a message on his cell phone from this woman, she lost it on him despite the truth of Wah not having committed any sin (kiss or otherwise) with Josephine. Wah should have told his wife about spending time with this woman, but Bobo over reacted by saying they were now splitting up.
Wah went to the arms of Josephine that night (after getting loaded), and the next morning when he conceded to Bobo's declaration of a split (which she was pretending never happened), she once again went ballistic when she's the one that wanted it in the first place.
Fast forward to the part that didn't sit well with me after some introspection nearly 90 minutes later.
Both Wah and Bobo had at least somewhat of a romantic encounter with someone else during their split. It was obvious that both of them were still in love with each other. An emotional conversation and a floodgate of tears later, they re-unite. All happy, right? An undetermined amount of time passes (not too much, maybe a few months to a year) and Wah is playing some PS2 when he receives a text message for Josephine saying that she missed him. He replied in kind. After paying attention to his transaction, he decides to erase the message lest his wife read it. Bobo on the other hand, goes off to their bedroom (not knowing of the text message) and begins a letter to her interim fling using paper he had made for her. Fade to black. Credits role.
Instead of the theme that love conquers all, we're left with a theme more along the lines of love should be distributed to more than one person.
Although there's a certain realism to that ending, I'm finding it rather hard to stomach. Somewhere there are people doing this to themselves every day. Why? This whole concept is really bothering me. I'm not longer feeling entertained by this movie. I now sit disgruntled with the entire thing. Probably because there's more truth to that movie than fiction.
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3 comments:
Dood. I work with "Sales Guys" and let me tell ya the wedding rings come off a the metal detector at the airport and go back on at the front door. People are scum.
So I guess the moral of this story is: people suck.
*shakes fist*
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