AKA: Jing zhuong zhui nu zi zhi er

AKA:
Zai jian ying xiong (1988)

Joi gin ying hung (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)

There are too many reviews already praising this film indepth.
I just had to add that having been to Berlin a few years ago and visting the Checkpoint Charlie museum and reading about the history of the city during WWII and after – I was incredibly interested in how citizens of East Germany lived during those times. (I regretted then and now DEEPLY regret not finding time to visit the Stasi archives/ museum!)

That would have been enough for a great film, but the painful reality of our current government taking away our civil rights and warrantless wiretapping it’s citizens makes this resonate much more personally.

And I didn’t even make the connection to the fact that the film starts in 1984 (surely a nod to Orwell) until I read some other comments.

The film does have a few minor flaws, but it has so much resonance that it becomes a great film.

p.s. I kept thinking the main actor resembled Kevin Spacey – I’m sad to hear that he passed away. He was great and I would have liked to see him in more.

Also Known As:
Kid Dreams Thriller (literal English title)
Scared Stiff

I nearly didn’t make it through the opening credits. The soundtrack is painfully bad.

Then the portrayal of the abortion clinic as a horrible place was such anti-choice propaganda I nearly stopped watching again. Her pregnancy is of course shown as trouble free and unrealistically easy.

The main problem is : Juno is incredibly irritating. She’s meanspirited. I would never want to adopt a baby with her genes. (& from someone too stupid to use protection). The decisions she makes are so spur of the moment, that a little thing changes her mindeither way. Michael Cera is 1-dimensional, unintelligent & does nothing but eat tictacs. Jennifer Garner is also 1-dimensional obsessed only with having a baby.

The dialogue is completely unrealistic. No one talks like that. Especially, no female (and hopefully no male) would ever refer to breasts as “fun bags”. The whole film tries WAY too hard to be ‘hip’.

And the writer seems to think she needs to follow the Clerks/indie model of discussing films and songs to show how hip and indie she is. (p.s. the Melvins are the ONLY band I have ever heard BOOED on stage).

The forced last minute changes to make a ‘happy’ ending are incredibly weak and seem to come out of nowhere.

I might’ve snickered twice. Not amusing. Maybe if it had been billed as a tragedy….

P.S. I took off another star after I learned this was ripped off from another movie called “jeni juno”.

Also known as:
Brotherhood (Hong Kong: English title)
Code of Honour (International: English title)
Promise Without a Word (Hong Kong: English title)
Triad Savages (International: English title)
Yee boon mo yin (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)

Also Known As:
The Lunatics (Hong Kong: English title)
Dian lao zheng zhuan (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Lunatic’s True Story (literal English title)
The Story of Maniacs

Also Known As:
My Will, I Will
You Want, I Want
You Will I Will

Also Known As:
Blood Money (International: English title)
Bloody Money (Hong Kong: English title)
Hardworking Money
Hong Kong Specialist (USA) (video title)
Huet hon gam chin (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)

Also Known As:
Flower City (literal English title)
Hua cheng (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Last Affair (Hong Kong: English title)