Three Seasons
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Movie Reviews of Three Seasons
Movie Review: Nice in DVD format
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought the VHS and was delighted to see the DVD version, other than the case paper all printed in Korean, I am happy with it.Movie Review: boring... and not very realistic
Summary: 1 Stars
I was so happy when I saw this movie on the shelves at my video rental place. yes, a chance to re-explore my roots. Well the movie was boring and long. The 3 plots don't really work together to reveal any great epiphany or insights about Vietnam or the Vietnamese... well maybe, apparently if you live in a poor urban neighborhood, and you were getting a back rub by a poor cyclo pedaler, you would be mostly nude with the with front door wide open. wow. the beauties of being poor. I know she's a hooker, but c'mon, they have a sense of shame and get embarrassed too. Yes, I would know.
The movie is dependent upon a few cliches: children are innocent and that country folks have good moral values. For example, the poor flower girl can somehow afford to give flowers away to white men, and thinks it's okay for her to enter people's houses and go through the papers on their desk without permission. Or the kid who spends most of his days strolling around Saigon carefree, looking for his box of goods. The reason why he has no awareness of his poverty, hunger, or the cold is because of his "innocence." Blah. give me a break.
The movie is suppose to give us some new insight about Vietnam's modernity and the Vietnamese, but it just plays in "the expectation" that the poor are good and innocent. Perhaps, if the producer spent some time researching, talking to a few of the "poor kids" on the streets of Vietnam, the ones who sell the lottery tickets or imitation goods, he might find that they have wits. It turns out that when you're forced to live on the streets, you need to be a fast learner to prevent being con. The director already had a vision of Vietnam before he actually went there to film it.