This film has a decided focus on women's issues including a look at sexual exploitation in the acting/modeling business, the constant pressure a woman feels to remain young-looking in order to keep their stinkin' husband from cheating, the life of self-loathing that can follow in the wake of certain mother/daughter issues, the bullying a female child is subjected to when she is not seen as being as pretty as her classmates, and the personal and professional difficulties that can come later in life for women judged less attractive. Given this focus, it is peculiar that the film appears to tell parents that they should not worry about their unattractive female children because a) the bullies are more likely to live with guilt over this, than the victims are to be damaged, and b) the girls can always choose to have plastic surgery when they're older! What I WANT to think is that there's a subtitle translation issue, and what was MEANT was that girls choosing plastic surgery should be made to feel no more stigma about doing so, than one should feel in choosing to be a "housewife" over other careers. I fear that this massaging of the message is merely wishful thinking on my part, however. Other qualms: In what world would a young attractive woman be horny for (I don't care if he's a physician of not) an old troll like Eric Tsang? Also, is it possible that a woman in HK – particularly one in the modeling/acting industry – would not have ever considered having oral sex with her husband? And even harder to believe, how is it possible that an extremely handsome and popular man would not have even ever asked his wife if she might consider oral sex? All that said, I enjoyed this film a lot, despite it's ultimate insensitivity to the very issues it observes.
