Like many others, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I did see it when it came out but thought my main point would have been discussed somewhere by now but apparently not. It was full of unexpected twists and turns. Many aspects of this film were very realistic about Gay life, East meeting West and so on. There is a lot of pressure in most cultures for sons to marry and produce grandchildren. Perhaps there is greater pressure in Asian ones but it certainly isn't exclusive to them.
So we have very well off, very disciplined Wai-Tung living an openly Gay life in New York City with his partner of at least 5 years and the partner's idea is to have a sham marriage to a woman to deceive the Chinese parents. During the wedding banquet, the woman, Wei-Wei takes advantage of a drunken Wai-Tung and gets pregnant.
After reading multitudes of reviews and not seeing what I'm about to say, I'm assuming I'm the only one with this opinion. Drunk or not, Wai-Tung had an at least 5 year relationship with Simon which he told his mother later he treasured. I think he would have been able to resist Wei-Wei's advances. At the very least he should have told Simon the next day he slipped up instead of what appeared to be many days later finding out she was pregnant.
Frankly I didn't like the ending. Wai-Tung's relationship is with Simon. It would be very difficult having a constant reminder of the breach of that. And how the three of them are going to co-parent seems like it will be a disaster based on past interactions. Simon was ready to call it quits and being a co-parent is enough to repair his relationship with Wai-Tung? Very unlikely.
And then there is the Chinese father knowing almost the entire time understanding English, his manipulations to get his grandson etc. Perhaps the lack of gay content 30 years ago led even gay reviewers to give great reviews.
So we have very well off, very disciplined Wai-Tung living an openly Gay life in New York City with his partner of at least 5 years and the partner's idea is to have a sham marriage to a woman to deceive the Chinese parents. During the wedding banquet, the woman, Wei-Wei takes advantage of a drunken Wai-Tung and gets pregnant.
After reading multitudes of reviews and not seeing what I'm about to say, I'm assuming I'm the only one with this opinion. Drunk or not, Wai-Tung had an at least 5 year relationship with Simon which he told his mother later he treasured. I think he would have been able to resist Wei-Wei's advances. At the very least he should have told Simon the next day he slipped up instead of what appeared to be many days later finding out she was pregnant.
Frankly I didn't like the ending. Wai-Tung's relationship is with Simon. It would be very difficult having a constant reminder of the breach of that. And how the three of them are going to co-parent seems like it will be a disaster based on past interactions. Simon was ready to call it quits and being a co-parent is enough to repair his relationship with Wai-Tung? Very unlikely.
And then there is the Chinese father knowing almost the entire time understanding English, his manipulations to get his grandson etc. Perhaps the lack of gay content 30 years ago led even gay reviewers to give great reviews.
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