I'm Livin' It

Meaningful but not very captivating. Depicts the life of the many street residers in such a wealthy city.

Was really good to watch a film that shows how the struggle is real for people in Hong Kong.

If you have never heard of people finding refuge in 24 hr McDonalds, then you will come to know this is a real thing in Hong Kong. Real estate is a hot commodity and rent is skyrocketing each year forcing residents to abandon the comforts of a home. This tells the stories of fictional characters but echoes very true to the people that you will find at such 24 hr fast food joints in Hong Kong. Very sad. Good movie to catch a glimpse of cruel reality.

There are roughly 250 big mac restaurants in a tiny little place like Hong Kong. Homeless people sleep in many of these 24hrs restaurants for various reasons. Fear to go home. Shame to go home. Cannot go home. Or just no home to go. Some reasons are hard to imagine. Life is hard, very hard indeed. But people do livin' it, no matter how hard it might be. This movie is very original, with many good moments and +ve emotions. That's why I like it.

Some homeless people can turn around. But to some people, it is a one-way ticket.

The slogan of a major fast food chain restaurant is "I'm lovin' it". The movie title is "I'm livin' it". A crude satire seems to be directed at the life of Hong Kong people or maybe the world at large.

This movie is like a snapshot in our time. What the World will look like in 20 years?

"While both films aim to stick to the gritty reality, cheesy happy endings for our two protagonists have no toehold in either, I'M LIVIN' IT falls prey to a lousy script, the faux-utopian camaraderie created by the have-nots is an airy-fairy contrivance, Bowen's tenuous romance with lounge singer Jane (Yeung) is anything but plausible, chemistry is wanting between Kwok and Yeung, Hong Kong's two superstars, whose mutual familiarity gets in the way. Most maddening is the subplot pertaining to Mama (Liu), a young widow, besides rearing her undocumented pre-teen daughter (Gaga Wong, formulaically precocious and cutesy) all by herself, who also voluntarily works her butt off around the clock to shell out the gambling debts of her dead husband's mother (a fierce cameo by Miao), who condemns her as a jinx, and what awaits her is a flagrant poverty porn wielded to extract audience's tears, a self-defeating machination much owing to the ill-conception of soliciting compassion out of abasement, plus a huge waste of Cya Liu, a talented actress from mainland China, who deserves better roles."

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