In the face of uncertainty,laugh

What we need right now in the face of war in Europe n Gaza,natural disaster in Myanmar and trade wars between super powers is a good laugh.How i miss Stephen Chows the king of mo lei tau or nonsensical farce that makes us roar with laughter. Stay calm and carry on laughing.How about a plot of a Western ship from America carrying hazardous environmental waste that breaks down nearing Hong Kong and the company pays hush money to villagers on Lantau islands to secretly dump the waste in the hills nearby.The fishing villages supply seafood restaurants in the city of Hong Kong and find the fish that has octopus tentacles or shrimps with glo in the dark designs on the shell and godzilla pincers and Hong Kong chefs have a contest to see who will win in creating the best fusion food in Hong Kong.Battle of the kung fu chefs.wow.Diners who sample the dishes have sudden superpower.skills that their teeth is razor sharp ,swim like a shark and handle weapons with 10 tentacle hands or a tai chi master who has the glo in the dark skin exoskeleton ,pincer like hands and looks like a sea dragon disciple. From a war of words,they descend to war for the oceans.Especially for those who refuse to comply with international mari time regulations,the battalion of super kung fu aqua mutants re deployed against ships that cause environmental pollution.They seize the ships and sink them into undersea vocano that incinerates the toxic shit.So if you cant watch Aqua man in the cinema ,wait for the new release of The rise of the Aqua Mutants,the superhero saves the ocean from ecological disasters.We need the mo lei tau of Stephen Chow in these challenging times.Kung fu master of the snapping turtle or kung fu of superstrong mantis shrimp or multiple handed fish cum octopus.My late mom disliked Stephen Chows nonsensical style but thats theatre of the absurd,a nihilistic worldview.aka Franz Kafka the Metamorphosis.i read kafka in varsity as an exam subject but now when i reread the Metamorphosis my maturity n wisdom led me to feel the despair of a young working salesman who is transformed into a cockroach ,is despised n rejected by his own family members.his eventual death is rejoiced by his family who can now lead back a normal life.This resonates with my understanding of a young man crippled and disfigured in an accident n is object of scorn by society and a burden to his own family.the dehumanizing effect of alienation is told thro an absurd tale of how the character eats rotten food ,has hideous exoskeleton and legs and crawls up the walls.looking at the absurd in a new light as only European writers who lived through two horrifying world wars can come up with the concept of existentialism and the surrealists of Salvador Dali.to understand reality look at the underpinning of the subconscious mind. But Stephen Chow style according to my mom is ngap sam ngap sai or talk three talk four.its kong ye mo tap sap talk things in a nonsensical way or kong lap sap or talk rubbish.Moms worldview is realistic n pragmatic and she prefers mainland Chiinese movies that are realistic and convey ideals of Chinese culture like filial piety,loyalty,be straightforward not cunning and shows the struggles of the working person against an unjust system of feudal landlords n greedy capitalists who look for quick riches so she finds Hong Kong movies on underworld,gangsters n rich CEOs and materialistic girls as conveying the inferior values of a shallow society. My late grandma loves Cantonese opera,bàk suet sin ,yam kim fei with classical tales like the Lotus lantern that showcases forbidden love and filial piety. but i admire Stephen Chowd creative reinterpretation of classics like journey to the west,monkey king and the flirtatious scholar tong pak fu.He appeals to the young people and reinvents the old by injecting comedy and action. but the future of screenplays will. be taken over by AI and the animation done by Stable Diffusion is fast.James Cameron says AI can reduce production cost,increase profit margins and speed up production process but no they cant come up with original screenplay as it needs creative human scriptwriters to have funny wordplay like Stephen Chow and artificial language doesnt know humour. Stephen Chow showcases keung. si,yit lou yit geng.the older the ginger,the more kick it has or as for the vampire ,the older it gets,the more awesome it is.the homonymn of keung si means sliced julienne of ginger or vampire .so im looking forward to a new Stephen Chow comedy as the best has yet to come.