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The Spirit of Love
Movie

The Spirit of Love

1993 • Unknown

Woke Score
3.4
out of 10

Plot

Judging by her lavish home, a model is making a fortune doing TV commercials. When her boyfriend/boss comes over and tries to get romantic, the model begins seeing weird and scary visions. Visions of blood flooding her floor, and a three year old boy ghost. It seems that, three years earlier, she was pregnant and caught her husband athletically knocking off a blonde. Husband kicked her down the stairs, which causes her to abort. The ghost is evidently the aborted baby grown up. Back to the present day, hubby has teamed up with a new girl, and is trying to get back into the house and kidnap the boy ghost.

Overall Series Review

The Spirit of Love is a 1993 Hong Kong Adult Ghost Drama centered on a model haunted by the vengeful spirit of her aborted son. The visions begin after her current boyfriend and boss attempts to get romantic. The haunting is rooted in a traumatic past event: her husband's infidelity and subsequent violence, which caused her to miscarry (abort) three years earlier. The ghost, representing the aborted child, is a direct, supernatural consequence of personal immorality and violence. The movie's focus is on personal sin, trauma, and a supernatural reckoning, rather than contemporary sociopolitical critique. Male characters are portrayed as deeply corrupt and violent, using women for pleasure and gain, and one is explicitly responsible for the unborn child's death. The female protagonist is a victim who must confront her past trauma and the ongoing threat from her wicked ex-husband, who seeks to exploit the ghost for his own gain.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The film is a Hong Kong production featuring an East Asian cast, making the categories of 'vilification of whiteness' and 'race-swapping' irrelevant. The conflict is entirely personal, focusing on infidelity, violence, and supernatural revenge, not systemic oppression or intersectional hierarchy. Characters are judged by their individual moral actions.

Oikophobia1/10

The film is non-Western media and offers no commentary or critique of Western civilization, home culture, or ancestors. The dramatic setting is contemporary domestic life, and the conflict stems from personal crimes, not civilizational self-hatred.

Feminism7/10

Male characters are consistently toxic and villainous. The ex-husband is an adulterer and is directly responsible for the female lead's forced abortion through violence, and the boyfriend/boss is also predatory. This fulfills the metric of depicting men as evil or toxic. The main female character is a victim whose primary conflict revolves around the trauma of a lost child, not a 'Girl Boss' narrative. However, the extreme negative portrayal of men pushes the score high.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative centers on a traditional heterosexual context—infidelity, marriage, pregnancy, and abortion—as the source of all conflict. There is no presence of alternative sexualities, queer theory, gender ideology, or deconstruction of the nuclear family structure for ideological reasons (it is destroyed by violence and cheating, not theory).

Anti-Theism7/10

The core plot mechanism is a ghost—the aborted child—who is an active, supernatural force of vengeance against its parents. This premise acknowledges a spiritual reality and a moral consequence for the sin of violence leading to death (abortion). This challenges moral relativism by asserting that a grave moral wrong has an objective, transcendent consequence. The violence and corruption of the characters are the source of evil, not a critique of traditional religion. However, the film's spiritual content is rooted in a non-Christian context and features dark supernatural themes, preventing a perfect low score.