Hooker's World
Director: Hong Lung
Year: 2002
Rating: 0.0
This is just a very
brief comment on this film – more like a warning on a pack of cigarettes
than a film review. Sadly there are people out there (like myself) who on
occasion purchase a film based only on the cover art and go into it with
at least some expectations that the cover truthfully represents the film
to some degree. Alas time has taught me that this is not always the case
– but apparently not taught me hard enough because I once again fell prey
to a salacious cover. Even the fellow at the dvd store advised me not to
waste my money, but hell with a picture of a naked Sophie Ngan holding an
equally naked Grace Lam you would have needed a herd of wild horses to pull
that dvd out of my sweaty little hand. Next time perhaps I will listen –
or perhaps not.
Lets just say there is more flesh exposed at a Muslim wedding than there
is in this film. This may be the mildest and most antiseptic film yet ever
made about that subject of hundreds of films – the Hong Kong hooker. There
are rumors that Disney may pick up the rights to play it on their cable station
right after an episode of Annette and the Mouskateers. It’s about a household
of very cheerful girls who run sexual errands to nearby hotels and who are
supervised by a sympathetic mamasan (veteran actress Ha Ping) and a pimp
who should be drilled out of the union for being so sweet and not once hitting
one of his girls. Hasn’t he seen enough HK movies to know that pimps have
to stomp on their working girls at least every few days and get sexual favors
from them? This guy lives in a household of lovely sexually active women
and gets less than a Bishop in a boy’s seminary (actually probably a lot
less). One of the girls gets killed – a cop played by Simon Lui is under
suspicion – and his cop girlfriend Grace Lam goes undercover to discover
the killer – all without ever getting naked with Sophie. The film is shot
on video and is awful in every conceivable and imaginable way.
