I WeirDO (2020)
1/10
Reductionist OCD message fails to win any hearts
16 October 2020
This tedious, self-aggrandising, zero-budget schlock may possibly have yielded 3 stars out of 10 from me. It gets pushed back to 1 because the core message is unacceptable. Reducing a chronic psychological condition to a fad that can simply "go away" one day is dangerous misinformation. (Indeed, the two main characters both seem to "lose" the disorder as the narrative drags on.)

Billed as a comedy, IWeirDO lacks much of the humanity that would make it so. The second half is where it particularly misses the mark, devolving into poorly-acted melodrama, before Chen Ching "becomes" Chen Po-ching in a hazy, protracted yet unexplained dream-like sequence rehashing their past.
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