Money No Enough 2

Just watched Money No Enough 2. That's what happens when you have a baby i guess... no more movies at the cinema. Gotta wait till it's out on DVD. Well, at least it's WAYYYY more economical. $5 for rental and 6 of us watched it, versus $9 each for movie tix, plus parking, plus popcorn... I do miss movie dates tho... anyone wants to babysit Glory for a night? ;)

Anyway, back to the show.
It is NOT a comedy.
There were the usual digs at the government, but this time less witty and biting. The complaints have been repeated so often it's not even funny anymore. It doesn't even stir up that nanosecond of "righteous indignation".
And, it is not a comedy, because i cried more than i laughed.
It's wrenchingly painful to see how the 3 male character's mother was taken for granted and sidelined in their quest for survival/prosperity/convenience/enjoyment. It's painful to see, because it is so real. For JAck Neo's character, it is outrightly wrong - he had the ability to give his mother a comfortable life, but chose not to, for selfish reason. What then, if, like Mark Lee's character, there was no one home to care for an elderly mother?
An Old Folks' Home must seem so dreary to the aged. After a lifetime of sacrificing for her kids, she's sent away from her loved ones to be with strangers. Horrible horrible horrible. Yet before i take the moral high horse and start condemning others, perhaps for some people, in their circumstances, that was the only way?
A mother now, i understand this awesome and unfathomable love a mother has for her child. And i know how i would be willing to do anything for Glory, however hard or painful. We mothers would wake up 5 times a night if needed, stop working if needed, work AND mother if needed, do whatever it takes without complaints to give the best for our kids... and yesterday i realized... hey, my mother felt/feels the same about me. And she did the same for me.
And for someone who once made all those sacrifices for me, it would be unforgiveable for me to give her any less than the best i can.
In the show, the Old Lady, who was suffering from dementia, woke Mark Lee up all through the night, looking for ummmm... various knick-knacks. Didn't we, as babies, woke our mothers up for feeds? Didn't they stay up for us -willingly and without complaints- when we were ill?
The Old Lady suffered from incontinence - as babies, didn't we also pee and poo and puke all over? And our mothers cleaned up after us without so much as a wrinkle of the nose.
So the Old Lady needs a room, didn't our parents change their lifestyles drastically to accomodate us, set aside rooms/money/ career to bring us up?
It goes a full circle, or it SHOULD go a full circle... we must look upon caring for aged parents as our duty, and a priority at that.
Should. Must. It's only right, really.