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6/10
How a girl might revenge
kin-719 December 2016
Warning: Spoilers
It is a story about: a girl likes a pastor, and then when finally one day they both drank some red wine and drove up to see the night view and french kissed, afterwards the girl sued him for harassment, and the pastor had to pay a small to medium fine, but could not be a pastor ever again but went into the business world and would have 30 nightclub women in a month.

Now the spoiler part: it turned out, the pastor and the girl were both drunk, but the girl really do like the pastor. After they french kissed, the girl asked the pastor "do you love me?" The pastor was actually, possibly due to being drunk, saying "you must be the temptation sent from the evil. You must be stopping me to go to Britain... to be a holy person for God, and you must be as low as a hooker to tempt me", etc, etc. It was possible that he said those things because he was drunk.

But the girl was so hurt, so the next day she filed for harassment and have the pastor sued. So the really thing is that, she felt hurt because the pastor said really bad things (while he was drunk). But then she didn't sue him for saying bad things, because saying bad things is not illegal. Instead, she had him sued for sexually harassment (for a french kiss).

To me, the pastor might have been wrong, but the girl is even more wrong -- by a far degree. Because she is using the law to persecute somebody, and she thought she was still being holy to do that... oh well, to me it felt like how a girl might revenge -- by any means by any unjust method.
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3/10
Decent screenplay ruined by one of the worst actress in hk cinema today
fundaquayman16 July 2022
This movie had potential - adapted from Candace Chong's stage play which dares to highlight how the #metoo campaign can mean no chance for those wrongly accused to prove their innocence - Jacky Cheung manages to carry his role convincingly and Anthony Wong does a great job in a scene-stealing small role as his defense attorney albeit with less than 10 minutes of screen time... unfortunately the entire film sinks thanks to the talentless actress Karena Lam who surprisingly still gets roles in spite of being one of the worst actress in hk cinema next to Sandra Ng and Gigi Leung - watching this movie only makes me wonder whose boots or butt she continues to manage to lick in order to keep getting acting roles, when there are dozens of actual actresses who can do a decent job instead of turning a good script into a joke of a movie. The director is also the husband of the lead actress and sadly together they have made 2 quite awful films thanks to both the mishandling in direction and her terrible acting where she either overplays or is completely miscast.
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