In my Hong Kong trip recently, I viewed the DVD of the movie, Only the Way, a “real piece of work” that Moon Lee produced and acted in while she was in the height of her divorce in 2008. That was another unexpected shocker!
I was told Moon was responsible for re-writing the script for first time director and close personal friend, Dung Tak Wing. After watching this totally embarrassing movie, it is easy to understand why it received recognition as the number one “Shit Film” in Hong Kong that year.
It is bewildering enough for anyone to believe that a satirically funny movie about the Buddhist faith can ever be made for Chinese moviegoers. It is even more unfathomable why Moon Lee would choose to write into the dumb movie script a replay of her real life scandalous affair with an unworthy teenager. Worse still, the then confused Moon, together with the idiotic first time director Dung, decided to use the real life transgressor to act the role of the errant kid in the film --- including actually seducing the twenty-one years older Moon Lee in bed and soon after being caught red-handed by the husband. Those decisions in 2008 transcend any logic and reasoning, and for most thinking people, actions like those would raise questions about the mental health of the participants. Did Moon make that choice as producer because she thought making fun of the real-life facts would discredit the truth? In retrospect, including reading some articles by reporters, most sensible people believed that facts of the reported scandal were true. Only prejudiced relatives, close friends and fiendish fans of Moon Lee believed otherwise --- and that number was tiny in comparison to the population at large. Moon Lee and director Dung made something already bad into something intolerably horrible. They truly became the epitome of the Hollywood movie, Dumb and Dumber!
Examine the movie photo (included here) that Hong Kong reporters got their hands on and published during the release of the movie in 2008. I believed they used it with sarcastic intent. Pictured here is the real-life scandalous teenage lover-boy, lying side by side in bed with Moon Lee, as a still photo of one of the scenes in the movie. They look as “real life” as can be, because neither of the lovers had much theatrical makeup. They did not even want to be transformed into another fictional character that is not their true nature. One can absolutely believe that teenage lover Zong was as ugly as he looked in the picture, playing himself. And the famous Moon Lee, without significant makeup help at nearly age forty, did not look any better either! As in real life, she looked like she was an older hooker, except her services were free and she made incalculable sacrifices. Unbelievable!!!
In the order of director Dung, lover kid Zong, and actress Moon Lee, the infamous threesome is now the “dumb, dumber, and dumbest”!
The more I find out, the more I am certain that this sex scandal is the “mother” of them all!
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