 |  |  | | | Previous UFO productions are pleasing because they give expression to the confusions of urban life from an entirely male viewpoint. If there is any redeeming quality about Part I, it is the film's utter loyalty to a male perspective. You may say "gender is no barrier to real love," but it gives me the creeps if I became gay. 30% hypocrisy mixed with 70% honesty. But with The Miracle, which professes a female perspective, the company actually puts its shortcomings on full-view. Part II forces a heterosexual male chauvinist's fantasies onto a lesbian. It not only ignores the special qualities of lesbians, but moreover, affronts this minority within a minority. The stereotypes may please the marketplace, the filmmakers should be ashamed of their own hypocrisy. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| | | | | While making a big fuss about how gender is no barrier to real love, the film time and again picks on homosexuals, and especially lesbians. Teresa Lee, a lesbian, is abnormal; and Anita Yuen is better off suffering the misunderstanding of having a gay relationship with Leslie Cheung than really jumping into bed with Anita Mui. In their efforts to balance the "prejudices" against homosexuals, the filmmakers arrange Lee bedding down Jordan Chan but remain steadfastly gay. But this does not redeem the Leslie Cheung character, who is homophobic and horrified that Yuen may turn lesbian. The sequel shows more self-examination compared to Part 1, but the mind-set of the small man - inferior yet self-important - is all the more blatant. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| | | | | Part I is my second favorite Hong Kong movie from the '90s. Its respect for the subject matter of idol worship, its conscious-conscious feminine sensibility - Anita wanting to touch Carina's breasts, and its harmless fairy tale structure, make it easy for me not to react against its homophobic mind-set. But Part II becomes overly ambitious. In order to shut up criticisms, the film utilizes a 90s' upgraded excuse for its inherent homophobia: a single homosexual experience does not make one gay. This not only exposes the film's genuine feelings towards homosexuality but also serves as a display of its very hypocrisy. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| | | | | The film makes a show of "political correctness", and is obviously an effort to please gays and feminists. So Teresa Lee does not go straight for a roll in the hay with a man, and Leslie Cheung is fixed up to experience the shattering of a male chauvinist's dream. Failing to come up with one genuine funny item about sexual identity, the filmmakers will give anything for a gag, including a reasonable plot. No audience will come out of the cinema convinced that Anita Yuen has had a taste of homosexual love. We only know that like the characters, the filmmakers themselves are thoroughly confused about gender discourses. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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