Face was an ok movie. Basically it's about how crappy Chinese culture and
family can sometimes be. Particularly with issues such as love, tradition,
and "mian4" or face. I could identify with some of the issues, such as the
parental units wanting me to find a "nice Chinese girl."

The performances were quite wonderful. Kim, played by Bai Ling (yay) was
really good. She played a younger self dealing with her mother
and family and about being a "good Chinese girl." And then later being the
mother of Genie, played by Kristy Wu and dealing with her daughter having a
African-American boyfriend (gasp!) and how the grandmother who had raised
Genie had to deal with what she considers as the disgrace of both Kim and
Genie.

One of the reasons I think Bai Ling was so good was that she can cry, the
climax (I think) when Kim was talking to Genie was very moving, at
least I thought so.

The above description probably didn't make any sense, but I'm still coming
off the high of meeting Bai Ling so I don't care. :)

After the movie, like I said before there was a pretty good Q&A section.
The director's explaination of why there was so much male nudity was quite
funny. Basically she didn't intend for it to get in there and having it
digitally removed would have been very expensive. I think she said about
10k. Oh yah, one of the male asses was in the movie was Asian partner that
was killed in the TNT series Witchblade. Of course me and Wing couldn't
figure out who it was until way after the movie during dinner.

When Bai Ling was answering questions, such as about how a Chinese
actress makes it in America cinema, it was sort of cryptic, sort of
inspirational. I didn't quite know how to take her answer, but everyone
applauded afterwards. :)

She's also *really* skinny, though it seemed to carry it off well. She was
wearing this cool skirt with fishnet stockings. Also, I don't know when
this started happening as a fashion statement, but she had the thing where
the strap of her thong was above waist band of her skirt. I've also seen
CoCo Lee do that in one of her promo photos. Not that I'm complaining if
this becomes a real fashion trend. Anyway, just color me fanboy. :)

Anyway, did I mention that I got her autograph? :) Actually when I was
waiting while she was talking to other people, it was sort of funny in that
when she was telling them a phone number, she first had to say it in
Mandarin and then translate it into English. It's funny in that I do the
opposite, if I have to give out a number I have to say it first in English
to translate it into Mandarin.

I was also able to ask her about her appear on the show "Angel" the
spin-off to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She said she did it because it was
fun, since she had to put on some of the monster makeup and that no one
recognized her. Well I don't know about that since the commercials for the
episode (if I remember correctly) was touting the fact that she was guest
starring.

Oh did I mention I got Bai Ling's autograph? :D