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...swirling crowd scenes intercut with sharply detailed close-ups, in smokily languorous tableaus that erupt into brutal fights and sensual embraces. Instead of letting the performers sing, however, he has them lip-synch to a sound track of their own cast recording, issued by EMI Classics with Simon Rattle + conducting the London Philharmonic. It's a vibrant recording in its own right, but the miming shows -- and jars with the quasi-naturalistic style of Nunn's staging. And because the music seems once removed, the production often lacks the one quality that every directorial stroke was intended to achieve: immediacy...
...movie, set in Manhattan, centers around Wai-Tung, (Winston Chao), a Taiwanese Yuppie, and his lover of five years, Simon(Mitchell Lichtenstein). Wai-Tung's unsuspecting parents, who live in Taiwan, are worried their only son will never marry, and as a result constantly suggest suitable young women for Wai-Tung. They even go so far as to enroll Wai-Tung in a dating service in Taiwan. Wai-Tung, in an effort to end his parents' badgering, describes his ideal woman as 5'9", a double Ph.D, an opera singer and fluent in five languages. Even this did not stop...
Finally, in an effort to appease Wai-Tung's parents, Simon suggests Wai-Tung consider marrying a mutual friend, Wei-Wei, played by May Chin as an aspiring artist who desperately needs a green card. Unfortunately Wai-Tung's parents are so ecstatic with the news they decide to fly from Taiwon to meet the young bride and prepare for the wedding. Wai-Tung, Simon and Wei-Wei immediately rush into a frenzy to rearrange their lives and prepare for the parents' arrival. After Wai-Tung's parents settle in New York the plot becomes a little convoluted, ending with...
Although the film was filled with many successful comic scenes, as the action became more serious much of the acting seemed forced and unrealistic. When Simon and Wai-Tung fought, there was so much focus on screaming and slamming it distracted from the real emotion of the argument. Similarly, when Wai-Tung's motivation for deciding to finally tell his mom was unclear and made the scene difficult to believe...
..../Yds. Avg. TD LngRobb Hirsch 17/126 7.4 1 14Read Hubbard 16/315 19.7 0 50Chris Taylor 14/239 17.1 1 45MARK BEGERT 14/197 14.1 0 26Kendrick Joyce 12/163 13.6 1 45Colby Maher 10/123 12.3 0 22Michael Hill 6/112 18.7 1 49FRANK LILLY 3/40 13.3 0 17NICK ISAACSON 2/14 7.0 0 16Esan Simon 2/2 1.0 0 2PHIL KELLEY 1/13...