Saturday was a movie marathon day for me. After watching "You Are My Sunshine". I took a dinner break before continuing a 2nd movie, "House of Harmony"
The story involves the lives of 2 Asian women, mother and daughter, during the early years of 1920s to 1950s. The story starts on the familiar island of Singapore.
Mother, Mei-ling, as played by Fann Wong was a learned and cultured daughter of a well known doctor. She met a charming Mr Barclay who was unfortunate attacked and subsequently had amnesia. While nursing him back to health, she fell for him. A twist of an unfinished love story as she became pregnant and gave birth to Harmony, played by Maggie Q.
Pretty as she is, Maggie Q acting is lacking in depth and emotional portrayal. She too suffered the same fate as her mother as she fell madly in love with this real father's stepson Gideon. Will she learn from her mother's lesson or will she create her own path where inter-racial marriage was a taboo during that period of time?
It is a long movie. I wonder if the book might actually be more interested to read as the movie seem to have jump at different spots, loosely linking up certain scenes and plots. Story gets old and predictable and annoying as the main female leads tried to fight weakly (quite literally) with the society expectation.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 fairy clouds.
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