More detailed commentary (I tried this once before but LJ ate it):
I think your and oyce's reviews helped make sense of it, plus I had K. and W. to help me out.
Andy Lau is indeed lovely, as are all of the women featured. I think the white guy at the end was some kind of manifestation of 'a god' (maybe an extra-terrestial?) and was hijacking Christian symbolism rather than Being God.
Also, the story ended in the 'guy loves a woman to save the world' trope (cf. Altered States) - with women it's usually 'woman loves her child and dies to save the world'. The ickier subset is 'ugly guy has sex with hot babe to save the world' (The Fifth Element Phenomenon).
The 'hit by a bus' thing reminded me of the 'run over by a tank' scene in Crying Game, which made me laugh, though everyone else seemed more concerned about what pronoun to use for Jaye(sp?) Davidson.
Overall I liked it and could kind of make up a coherent thread (sort of) - were the guys who DIDN'T go along with the scheme melted down? Did it seem like Andy Lau was going to? Was it him in particular they needed, or just someone more (minyan?). Where did all of the other people in the cult COME from, was his one coworker always in on it?
Also I think all of the various theories (that spewed everywhere when they hacked into 'the Japanese's computer?) were there to give us a way to pick and choose, like, 'the god' guy attached to the one that the most people liked (like a poll or something)?
Anyway. I liked it. And him and Dead Girl deciding to love each other even though she could die (again) AT ANY MOMENT was sort of poignant for me personally.
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Date: 2009-07-13 02:39 am (UTC)I think your and oyce's reviews helped make sense of it, plus I had K. and W. to help me out.
Andy Lau is indeed lovely, as are all of the women featured. I think the white guy at the end was some kind of manifestation of 'a god' (maybe an extra-terrestial?) and was hijacking Christian symbolism rather than Being God.
Also, the story ended in the 'guy loves a woman to save the world' trope (cf. Altered States) - with women it's usually 'woman loves her child and dies to save the world'. The ickier subset is 'ugly guy has sex with hot babe to save the world' (The Fifth Element Phenomenon).
The 'hit by a bus' thing reminded me of the 'run over by a tank' scene in Crying Game, which made me laugh, though everyone else seemed more concerned about what pronoun to use for Jaye(sp?) Davidson.
Overall I liked it and could kind of make up a coherent thread (sort of) - were the guys who DIDN'T go along with the scheme melted down? Did it seem like Andy Lau was going to? Was it him in particular they needed, or just someone more (minyan?). Where did all of the other people in the cult COME from, was his one coworker always in on it?
Also I think all of the various theories (that spewed everywhere when they hacked into 'the Japanese's computer?) were there to give us a way to pick and choose, like, 'the god' guy attached to the one that the most people liked (like a poll or something)?
Anyway. I liked it. And him and Dead Girl deciding to love each other even though she could die (again) AT ANY MOMENT was sort of poignant for me personally.