Watching the DVD for “This Film Is Not Yet Rated,” there was a trailer for a documentary called Cowboy del Amour. 72% at Rotten Tomatoes.

Apparently it’s the story of a 60 year old guy in New Mexico who fixes up American men with Mexican wives. Qualifications for the wives include being younger than 38 and weighing less than 130 pounds. Qualifications for men? The ability to pay the $3,000 fee. He’s been doing this for 15 years and apparently quite successful.

Quote from one of the satisfied customers in the film – “I had me an American wife for 17 years. She spoke perfect English. I never did understand a single thing she said.”

Now, while some of you may choose not to believe this, I’m not one of those men who thinks “Caucasian women bad, Asian women good.” Having to deal with both a Caucasian ex-wife and an Asian ex-wife, well ….

But different people see things in different ways. And I think that’s really well illustrated by quotes from different reviews of the same film:

The Los Angeles Times said: It gently sheds light on the ways in which people seek new terrain in love when their familiar surroundings let them down.

Andrew Sarris says: one of the sweetest, funniest and most enjoyable nonfiction films you are likely to see this year.

And yet, The New York Post said: you don’t need to be a Harvard-educated psychiatrist to realize that the bunch of them are dirty old men who treat women as commodities.

Who’s right and who’s wrong? Probably all of them (I haven’t seen the movie yet).

As far as “This Film is Not Yet Rated,” if this is the sort of thing you care about, the movie will seriously piss you off. Everyone else will tune out long before it’s over.

As far as treating women like commodities, believe it or not, I haven’t had a night out in the three days I’ve been back. Not from lack of desire, mind you, just other things.

Hongkie Town
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