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I Wanna Be Your Man
Movie

I Wanna Be Your Man

1994 • Unknown

Woke Score
3
out of 10

Plot

Lau Ching Wan was in the force for almost ten years. He was very careless and was termed "Detective Idiot" by his colleagues. One day, he came to the knowledge that his boss, Christine Ng was a lesbian. Nevertheless, they became good friends and treated each other like brothers. Unfortunately, Lau fell in love with Ng's girlfriend.

Overall Series Review

I Wanna Be Your Man is a 1994 Hong Kong comedy-drama centered on a bizarre love triangle and a police procedural subplot. The main story focuses on Detective Lu Che-Mo, an 'idiot' cop, who learns his superior, Inspector Susan Wong Suet-San, is a lesbian. They form an unlikely friendship, but the situation explodes when Lu Che-Mo falls for Susan’s girlfriend, Ron, and has an affair with her. The situation is further complicated when Susan herself develops romantic feelings for Lu Che-Mo, turning the story into a complex emotional knot that puts all three characters into conflict. Separately, there is a crime plot involving a public prosecutor who illegally takes the law into his own hands. The film's primary themes are romantic entanglement and shifts in sexual identity, rather than political or ideological messaging. The central female characters are strong professionals (a police inspector and a model), but the main plot revolves around the male character disrupting their established lesbian relationship, leading to emotional, heterosexual conflict.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The film features an entirely East Asian cast in a Hong Kong setting. Character conflict relies on personality and relationship dynamics (e.g., the 'Detective Idiot' trope and a love triangle), not on race or a hierarchy of immutable characteristics. The narrative is entirely colorblind within its cultural context.

Oikophobia1/10

There is no evidence of hostility toward Hong Kong or Chinese civilization, ancestors, or traditional institutions. The secondary plot involves a corrupt official, which critiques an individual within the system but does not frame the entire home culture as fundamentally flawed or racist. One main character is shown living with his widowed mother and having inherited land from his father.

Feminism5/10

The character of Inspector Susan Wong Suet-San is a female 'Girl Boss' police superior to the male lead. The male protagonist, however, is portrayed as bumbling ('Detective Idiot'). This balances the score towards the middle. The plot’s resolution involves the women's established lesbian relationship being broken by the male lead's romantic intervention, pulling the narrative away from a pure 'Girl Boss' or anti-natalist message.

LGBTQ+7/10

Alternative sexuality is a central plot device, as the male protagonist's relationship with a lesbian's girlfriend forms the core conflict. This centering of non-normative sexuality drives the entire narrative. The score is high due to this centrality. However, the narrative is noted in commentary to involve one or both lesbian characters shifting their sexual focus to the male lead, which prevents a maximum score for ideological deconstruction of the nuclear family or biological reality.

Anti-Theism1/10

The movie is a secular comedy-drama and crime film. Search results show no mention of religion, hostility toward Christianity, or discussion of transcendent morality. Morality in the secondary plot is confined to legal and ethical choices within the police/prosecutor framework.