I was wondering when we would see gay people in kung fu type movies, and this is it. The portrayal is not too nice but was not all bad.
The movie is originally in Chinese and stars, obviously, Chinese actors. In the movie a gang charges money to “protect” citizens and business owners. Nothing new, right? But here, when the gang is lead to attack a poor neighborhood, the town’s quite ordinary people happen to show remarkable fighting skills. The movie is very good.
We had two gays here, one was the hairdresser of the small poor village (he was very brave, facing up to the evildoers). The other gay was the village’s tailor, who was also fearless. Fearlessness is certainly a nice trait for the gays; on the other hand, being gay is certainly an unusual feature for kung fu fighters (I guess that was the whole point of the movie, to display fighters that didn’t look the part). The bravery in the gay characters gave the score of 4 to the movie’s gay portrayal, a score which would have otherwise been lower due to the name calling (they used "fairy" in a derogatory manner quite a lot, without much consequence).
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