"Men will sit through the most boring pointless movie if there's the slightest chance a woman will take her top off," Elaine Benes. Sex, drugs, smoking in the girls' room, teenage rebellion, etc. are portrayed here in this caricature of a movie they call this based-on-true-story waste of time. What's her problem? So
she's an Asian-American. She's trying to fit in. She's struggling to find her identity. Her parents are divorced. She saw porn at age nine. Later that same evening she sees her mom having sex with someone. This turns her into a crack whore? I'm too lazy to even write a synopsis, so I'm putting this link to their website. [indent]Close Call focuses on sixteen-year-old Jenny Kim, born and raised in corrupt Los Angeles. Family problems lead to a divorce causing Jenny to suffer from intense feelings of alienation and abandonment. Ignorant of her native culture and unsure of her place in American society, Jenny finds herself vulnerable to the evil influences and temptations surrounding her from friends, raves, boys and other mishaps. While her mother loses control of her, it is her father, David, who reunites with Jenny and leads the teenager to redemption. Never losing his all-consuming love for Jenny, David proves willing to make any sacrifice to save her. It is the intense psychological interplay between father and daughter in two different worlds that forms the heart and soul of Close Call.[/indent]This is a pointless movie. I knew it the moment I saw this DVD in the streets of Quiapo. The cover and the synopsis at the back of the case say so. I wish they had thrown in some boob exposure here to reward me for the 93 minutes of this melodramatic soap operatic bullshit. It's so awful the only explanation I can imagine why this movie was made is that the lead actress got it through casting couch. Writer-director Jimmy Lee, once promised her a movie. While she was giving him head, he blurted out something like, "I'm going to make you a star!" After relieving himself of some serious semen blockage, he realized he made an empty promise to an aspiring actress. To have her in bed again meant he had to make a movie for her so he slapped together all those cliches in teenage soap operas he watched as young man growing in Korea, put them together, added some gayish rave music and made something that he hopes will pass as a movie to western moviegoers. But in the special feature of the DVD (yes, this pirated disc has a special feature), it is revealed that the main actress is actually Jimmy Lee's daughter! Oh... Well, that explains. Dad wants to make baby girl a star. But wait... This is weird. This movie is like some substitute-Elektra complex Taboo-ish incestuous sex on film. This director dad puts her daughter in kissing scenes with both genders. He makes her wear skimpy skirts. Made some panty shots. Yes, there's no boob exposure here, but there's a lot of scenes here that a father wouldn't want to see his daughter in. (It's been a long time since I've posted here I don't know how to save anymore. This is still a draft)
May 25, 2010
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