The Forbidden Legend Sex & Chopsticks (2008)

I'll Take Everything What I Want

This title already summarizes the whole plot of the story.

First of all, this is a film based on a novel called Jin Ping Mei (Hanzi: 金瓶梅) aka. The Plum in the Golden Vase or The Golden Lotus, a famous literary work by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (Hanzi: 蘭陵笑笑生) of the Míng Dynasty (16th Century). The difference between the novel and the film is in the number of wives he has. In the novel he has 6 wives.

This film was the first time I watched when I was in high school or in the early days when I was in college (I forgot). The first time I watched it I thought it would be the same as Sex and Zen movies, a Chinese film set in dynastic times and full of semi-sex scenes. Actually after I watched the movie, I had forgotten the title... At least until the day I made this review, while scrolling through Instagram, there was an account that reviewed a film called Wu Song (same story but told from the point of view of Wu Dalang and Wu Song).

From there, I realized that there was a similarity in the story when Wu Dalang's wife dropped the wooden shutters. I immediately searched about this film (remember! I forgot the title) and it turns out that they have the same name. But I wonder because the story in the movie ends when they just get married? and it turns out there is a second film! Immediately after I re-watched this film, I continued to watch the second film.

Ok, now enough to tell about the background of the story. Now I will review it,
Story : My personal opinion about this film is that it's good.. not too bad.. I just felt weird when I saw it for the first time, a father who taught his son how the feeling of "broken hurt" and the child immediately agreed? 🤨. And the moment when he did NTR (Netorare; a Japanese manga genre that tells about infidelity), DAMN! Because this is a film that tells the story from Ximen's point of view, the first time I watched it I felt "that's ok". But when I watched Wu Song's movie review, "oh boy.. why did u do that?". Well... I guess.. the POV of a character in the story is really important, huh? 😅

Acting : Well... as every old Chinese movie that do dubbing, the moaning sounds a little bit annoying for me :v
But their acting in sex scenes looks quite satisfying (in my opinion).

Overall : For the first part of the whole story, this movie is okay and good enough... Not much complicated stuff happened yet...

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