When Kai's (Andrew Leung) life is abruptly cut off, his mother, Junn (Cheng Pei-pei), and his lover, Richard (Ben Whishaw) each feel the aching pain of his absence.
Junn, who is Cambonian-Chinese, "speaks 6 languages all together", though English isn't on the list. Richard, shockingly, speaks only English. What's more, Kai didn't get the chance to come out to Junn; she thought he and Richard were roommates.
Wanting to both heal and help, Richard seeks the assistance of a casual…
"If I give you head
will you go away?
Is that what you wanted
the blow away?"
Darren (Kelly McCormack) is quite literally "a starving artist". She can sing Italian arias like a bell in a music hall, conjure haunting lyrics to "stupid break up songs", lose herself in improvised drum solos, make a pedal steel sing "soprano". But a girl's gotta eat, and that food is better off snuck into her backpack after a catering shift than dumped in…
"I'm a good girl, Mr. Cook. But sometimes I need to be bad. Now get your filthy ass in the car."
Willie and Marcus are back to ring in the Holiday with some real gallows humor. More mean spirited than the first, while also keeping that awareness. Chosen family naughty list.
"I swear to god a fuckin' electric oven."
"My dad never did shit with his life, so he took it out on me. You could say I'm no different, and I'd have to say you were right. But at this point, it's too late to start over. Funny how things work out. It's fuckin' hilarious."
Getting into that Holiday spirit with a film starring two late actors, Bernie Mac & John Ritter may they be partying in some type of afterlife that probably doesn't exist. You gotta love a Drunk Santa. People aren't the problem.
"The truth is, I'm not Santa."
A gorgeously hyper-violent psychological exploration of one of the most dynamic characters I've ever seen featured on screen. Choi Min-sik's command of facial expressions and body language is just bonkers brilliant. To say his ability to shift from bumbling drunk buffoon in this film's introductory expositional sequences (some of the funniest moments in any film, comedy or not, Choi Min-sik does an incredibly believable drunk) to a hollowed out former prisoner, struggling with his solitary confinement induced monstrosities, while simultaneously…
