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"Tempting Heart" is a cleverly-told, heartfelt movie that details the first -- and perhaps, best -- love of the director's life. What makes the story so unique is that the director plays herself in the movie. As she works with a screenwriter to develop the script, her tale is told in a series of flashbacks. Gigi Leung plays the director as a teenager, Takeshi Kaneshiro plays the introverted guitarist she falls in love with. Their idyllic relationship is blown apart when the girl's mother discovers that the young couple spent a chaste night in a hotel. Leung and Kaneshiro have wonderful chemistry together and the story, though sentimental, is fresh and free of cliches.
Not my favorite Takeshi film, but the issue taken on was intriguing and relevant to us all...that of how people deal with love....something we all supposedly want more than anything else in the world. But the film was real, in the sense that people do choose other priorities over love, and make choices about love that might seem to make sense from a practical standpoint, but they don't feel right to the heart....and so they begin the slow process of distancing themselves from their lives and their hearts, as the main character in the film does....what a sad film, but ultimately a very truthful depiction of how many people in the real world deal with love, and great love at that. I guess that's why it wasn't my favorite Takeshi film...I was hoping for a fantasy...I always want people to have the courage to go for the great love so they never die in small pieces over time.
I am a great fan of movies like this and I am also a big fan of Takeshi Kaneshiro. I have heard sooo many good things about this movie; and when I actually saw it, I was quite surprised at how everyone can praise this movie so much. The plot itself was good, but the story was soooo boring and it did not touch me in any way. In fact, I do not see what all the fuss was about!
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