Friday, May 12, 2017
The World of Suzie Wong
The World of Suzie Wong is a romantic movie about a foreigner in Hong Kong who goes there to paint and as he arrives there he meets a beautiful girl in the ferry who tells him that she is rich and she will be getting married soon, he tries to get her information but she vanishes.
Robert ends up staying in a hotel that doubles as a brothel at night and to his surprise runs into the girl there, she turned out to be a "companion" for sailors who can't read or write and given the harsh economic situation of China at the time does that to make a decent living. Suzie is very delusional and makes up scenarios in her head about who she could be and always flaunts the "things" she has, Robert likes this about her. They go on a dew dates and leading that she asks him to be his permanent girlfriend and that if he takes her as that she will only he his and will not go out with other men, Robert likes her but tells her that he can't afford her and instead uses her as his muse for the paintings and pays her a small amount that he can afford.
Robert and Suzie become friends and he gets to know the other girls that go to the bar as well. Meanwhile he is trying to make it as a painter and the daughter of someone who is helping him to succeed with his passion falls for him and a platonic love triangle starts. Both girls fall for him, he needs the other one and likes Suzie but never makes the decision to go out with either one. Suzie eventually gives up on him and tells him that she will be someone else's girlfriend, Robert tells her to go and she does. After Suzie's new bf breaks up with her Robert decides to give it a try with her and puts all of his doubts about dating someone who does what she does away and also the age up since he is almost 40 and Suzie barely 20. Suzie hides something about her life all of these time and one day Robert decides to follow her, only to find out that she has a small baby. She tells him that she didn't know if he would want a girl with a baby and also that the baby's father is someone important and she doesn't want to give up her baby. Robert as the gentleman he is accepts the situation and keeps dating her. One it starts raining and the city flooded, Suzie lost her baby due to it and Robert was there with her, he asks her to please never leave his side and she promises him to never due so.
The theme of the movie is an American going to live in China and how even though he is in another land he still has more power than some Chinese living there. Prostitution with strangers is a profitable business among girls there for whom a lot of time is the only way out of poverty and foreigners love exotic girls from other places. A lot of women from developing nations have the hope that one day and American would go there to visit and fall in love with them and bring them back, these is seemed throughout the movie.
I enjoyed watching this movie a lot and even made me very emotional towards the end. I do see how there is a market for these type of business not only in China but in many other countries of girls hoping marry a foreigner and travel with them, they're very susceptible for a lot of charlatans and as portrayed in the movie even violence at times.
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