We got hold of “Dumplings” starring Miranda Yeung on VCD last week. This Cat III movie was much talked about when it was on in the cinemas, and we wanted to go but missed it.
Conceptually the movie was gross, and I totally agree with the classification.
I read some silly article somewhere on this movie, somehow relating the act of cannibalism to the consumption of placenta as a nutritious food. No doubt the extension of the latter act is the main theme of this movie, and the gross factor is something the movie stresses, but the fact that this movie failed to condemn the immorality is something quite disturbing in itself.
In the movie, the bad, the rich (2) and the greedy all came out ahead to a certain degree (admittedly they all carried their own curses); OTOH the poor and vulnerable died as a victim, her mum took revenge on the source of their tragedy and had to face the consequence alone. This also gave me a very uncomfortable feeling.
It is not such a bad movie. It is just not something I would recommend.
And no Miranda still can’t act. Upon recommendation from my sister-in-law, I tried to watch one of her comedies, but couldn’t bear even the first 5 minutes of it, and left my TV set to do something else. Audiences these days are either so fscking stupid and laugh at anything that passes to be a comedy, or they have gotten so sophisticated that they laugh at tragi-comedies where the tragedy is the poor actors/actresses themselves.