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I Am Crazy About You
Movie

I Am Crazy About You

1971 • Unknown

Woke Score
1
out of 10

Plot

A father endeavours to reform his irresponsible children.

Overall Series Review

I Am Crazy About You (1971) is a Hong Kong drama centered on a wealthy father’s attempt to restore traditional morality and filial piety within his ungrateful family. The father, enraged by his children’s greed, laziness, and irresponsibility, fakes his death as part of a scheme to force them to change. A fake will and a three-month deadline compel his children to abandon their vices and adopt a responsible lifestyle to secure their inheritance. The plot’s conflict is purely a moral one: the children embody universal vices like sloth, selfishness, and excessive materialism, which are contrasted with the virtue and responsibility demonstrated by the co-conspirator's exemplary daughters. The narrative is a straightforward moral parable that advocates for responsibility, diligence, and respect for the patriarch and the family unit. The film's 1971 setting and non-Western cultural origin ensure a complete absence of the modern ideological frameworks of intersectionality, civilizational self-hatred, queer theory, and anti-theism.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The narrative focuses entirely on a moral conflict between the children's personal vices (greed, irresponsibility, gambling, promiscuity) and the traditional virtues of hard work and filial piety. The characters are judged only by their moral fiber and merit. Race and immutable characteristics are not a factor in the conflict or its resolution.

Oikophobia1/10

The plot celebrates traditional familial structure, moral order, and the value of hard work, all of which are central to the father's plan. The core theme is the preservation and reformation of the home and its values, which the children initially reject through their modern, irresponsible behavior. The film promotes gratitude and respect for the sacrifices of the father/patriarch.

Feminism2/10

Gender dynamics are traditional, with a strong male patriarch who ultimately engineers the moral correction of his children. While one son's wife is a negative stereotype of a nagging, dominating woman, and the daughter is a spoiled princess, the positive female characters are defined by their exemplary nature and complementary role in guiding the men back to virtue. Masculinity and the nuclear family are affirmed, and the narrative contains no anti-natalist or 'Girl Boss' messaging.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative's entire structure is built around the traditional, normative family unit (father, sons, daughter). The resolution involves the sons being guided toward reform by virtuous women, reinforcing a traditional pairing model. Sexual orientation is not a topic, and there is no deconstruction of the nuclear family or promotion of gender theory.

Anti-Theism1/10

The film acts as a secular moral parable that endorses a transcendent, objective moral law where responsibility, filial piety, and virtue are absolute goods. The conflict is right versus wrong, and the narrative concludes with the success of a moral lesson. The movie contains no hostility toward traditional religion or embrace of moral relativism.