True story, I swear...

Rating: 9/10 (7 June 2002)

A couple of years ago I was dating a girl from Shanghai. We'd tentatively agreed to see this movie together, but we amicably parted ways shortly before it came out, so we ended up seeing it separately. When we compared notes afterward, she said, "You know dat not really happen, right?" (I'm not making fun of her accent, by the way, or exaggerating it. This is how she talked.) I said of course I knew it wasn't true... I mean, people running up walls, walking on water, flying through the air, and whatnot... "I'm not talkin' 'bout dat," she said, "I mean dat young girl have sex before married. Dat not happen China." Right: there are a billion and a half Chinese because nobody fools around! Well, I asked, what about all that other stuff? people walking up walls, etc.? "Oh, dat really happen," she said. "But dat was long time ago." True story.