Not Enough Love?

I listened to a radio show with Ho-Sun Chan, the director of Perhaps Love. And it was, to say the least, very thought provoking. He said, as far as Chinese movies go, Hong Kong and Taiwan are very small markets, so it's either mainland China, or the US. And whilst folks in mainland China might actually watch more foreign films than US folks, they prefer the pirated versions of them. And it's not just the cost, but the censorship. Therefore, the better the movie, the more one has to watch a pirated version of it. And the only movies that people will pay to watch in a theater has to be considered "big." He said he doesn't want to do a regular kung fu film with romance. That's just like a West Side Story (yes, he said that in English, this *is* a radio show in the bay area :P). In stories like that people don't question about whether they really want (love) or not, they just want it because others tell them they can't have it. On the other hand, his movies are about not enough love. He said in modern days, there are not such thing is forbidden love anymore. Anyone is free to love anyone else. That's when people actually question whether they really want it or not. And that's why his movies are not about too much love, but not enough love.

Wow, I never thought of it that way. "Not enough love." I've always thought romance = A loves B, B doesn't love A, B loves C, C doesnt' love B, and so on and so forth. OR it can be like "Grey's Anatomy," just have sex with the next available man/woman. Not enough love is definitely a brand new concept for me.