The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2
- kinetic
- inventive
- cold
- intimate
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Rich and powerful Simon Qing has been schooled in the ways of sex by his virile father, but is still a virgin. That is, until he meets his first love Violetta who has fun with him all over his father’s estate. Their love does not last, so Simon embarks on a journey. Along the way he meets the comely nun Moon whom Simon deflowers and then marries. He then becomes enamored of Golden Lotus but she is married to dwarf Wu Da-Lang.
Our read · The Forbidden Legend: Sex & Chopsticks 2 (2009) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The Forbidden Legend
What watching it is actually like.
“You want campy Hong Kong erotic farce full of sex schemes and period excess.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if you want tasteful romance or anything without wall-to-wall explicit sex.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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