"Watch something happy today." That was a request from one of my closest friends when I asked what I should watch tonight for my month long experiment. Well, what could be happier than watching a movie about Miriam Yeung getting breast cancer? In all serious while the film has an obvious message it does succeed in keeping my attention for 98 minutes and it even made me think about a serious topic for a while.

Miriam Yeung plays Bingo: a single 30 year old professional who, by chance, runs into V (Richie Ren) after some hanky panky starts up at her place V suddenly discovers that Bingo has a lump in her left breast and we see in all the things that Bingo must go through both physically and emotionally as she battles her disease.

Strangely with a plot like that you'd expect it to be a Lifetime TV movie complete with dramatic music, the ignorant evil man-like character that appears in all of those types of films as well as the washed up former TV has-beens. Instead what we get is a rather silly and contrived comedy along with some inspirational scenes as well.

Since I have a lot of random notes jotted down about this film and no real concise way to tie them together I am going to end this review with some things I learned while watching 2 Become 1.
* If a tumor is close to the nipple then a radical masectomy is required
* Suicide hotlines numbers are printed on bags of charcoal in Hong Kong
* People sing Psalm 23 in Cantonese
* Psalm 23 in Cantonese to Engrish subs gives us some interesting results
* Miriam Yeung looks hot in a bra
* If a woman invites you back to her place you have a better chance of getting with her if you start doing the dishes
* I get a strange feeling seeing a hot woman driving a Hyundai.

I suppose if you are a big Miriam Yeung fan you will enjoy this film. For the casual Hong Kong fan you might want to stay away. Still, it might also be a good film to show your girlfriend if you want to get her into the genre.

Labels: 31 days of film, Drama, Hong Kong