Perhaps Love (2005)

REVIEW

The film casts 4 main actors famed Cantonese singer Jacky Cheung, Japanese/Chinese actor Takeshi Kaneshiuro, stunning Chinese film star Zhou Xun and Korean actor Ji Jin-Hee.

Zhou Xun is best remembered in English countries for her tremendous spirit in the film adaptation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, where, admittedly, I didn’t think she looked that good.

What do I know? A newspaper poll at that time in China revealed that the Chinese think she is the third most beautiful woman in China big props considering the size of that pool -1/2 of 1.3 billion people.

In Perhaps Love, Xun plays a remarkable role that shows her to be as cold and unfeeling as a Terracotta warrior, but, at times, cute and warmly passionate.

And I’ll admit it, Takeshi Kaneshiuro is a damn good-looking man, although in this film, he borders on effeminate. He was pretty ruff and tuff in the truly excerable House of Flying Daggers.

I should mention that director Peter Ho-Sun Chan made Perhaps Love to be the first Chinese musical Broadway-style musical, that is, and it feels incongruous at times.

While the music may be forgettable, the dance sequences are outstanding as well they should, as the dance choreographer was Bollywood’s Farah Khan. And it feels a little Bollywood up in here, up in here.

Is this film just a mash of jagged pieces that don’t quite go together?

Well, at its fundamental level, Perhaps Love is about the human condition, and feels incredibly real, while showing off the bright lights and fancy costumes of a lavish movie production. It all shoots by, like streaking meteors over your head, and you’d love to press pause to catch your breath.

Best explained

“The result certainly feels real, love is composed of affection, sacrifice, selfishness, hate, possessiveness, and plenty of other counseling worthy emotions, and Perhaps Love covers this territory with sometimes heartbreaking effectiveness.”

Yes Ho-Sun Chan shows us the bitterness that accompanies love, and rarely do we have a chance to admire or feel happy for any of the characters in the film. In fact, the existance of love in this film serves only to push them to do bad things, reminding us that love isn’t all cotton candy and gumdrops. No, Perhaps Love rudely teaches us that love can be the blunt razor edge, slicing jagged tears in our flesh as we struggle to swim to the surface.

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