Feminine Masculinity

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Cast Character Name
Gallen Lo Dang Bing Kuen
Flora Chan Christine Fong Ci Ching
Kong Wah Andrew
Nicola Cheung Sardonna
Florence Kwok Francoise
Tong Ying Ying Sophie
Lee Ka Sing Chung Sir

Plot Rating: 8/10

Artist Rating: 9/10


FM was an okay series. When I finally found out who the killer was, I was really surprised. I thought Gallen, Flora, and Florence did a pretty good job. Gallen and Flora did a good job. I was actually kindda surprised how well Florence handled her "ghost" part later in the series.



Episodes 1-2
Gallen is the leader in a small village. He is very "dai nam yun" (bossy, sexist) and his character just annoys me in the beginning of the series. People in the village look up to him. One day in the mall, he sees a crook knock over his fiancée so Gallen chases the guy to the top of the building and starts yelling at him. The poor crook got so scared that he lost his footing and almost fell off the roof of the building. Gallen saves him and ends up a national hero on tv.

Flora Chan plays the authoritative businesswoman role. She works at a company which sells intimate apparel and she's very successful. Flora has a younger brother and sister. Her personality is on the extreme side in that she bosses around her whole family, her husband and the people who work under her. Her attitude towards life in general is that you can't be dependent on people.

Flora spots Gallen on tv and decides to use him as a model in the commercial she's working on. Gallen agrees to do the commercial, thinking that he'll play a hero. However, Flora tricks him and changes around the commercial to her benefit. This angers Gallen because it tarnished his hero image on tv so he went to her company and yelled at her.

Flora's success in her commercial led her to a promotion as GM-general manager-of the firm. However, realizing that Flora lacks openness and communication skills with her co-workers, her boss plans an outing where all the employees are to participate in a paintball game. (I don't know if any of you have ever played paintball but, you basically have two teams and you try to shoot each other while obtaining the flag of the opposite team…it's kinnda fun but it hurts if you get shot in the hand or the butt =) I'm speaking from experience…heehee). Anyways, Gallen ends up being the trainer and the leader of one team. He and Flora are on opposite teams and his goal of the game was to shoot Flora =) However, he ends up shooting all these other people instead…this part was kindda funny. Gallen accidentally shoots Florence Kwok, who is one of Flora's co-workers, and she really despises Flora (more like jealousy). Florence mistakes the person who shot her to be Flora and she gets very upset. Then she starts shooting at Flora and in the midst of this, a real bullet is shot at Flora and goes through her body, into Gallen's.

Flora dies but Gallen is resuscitated at the hospital. Gallen is one of those people who doesn't believe in ghosts and spirits but his uncle happens to be a believer who has yin/yang eyes (ie. He can see spirits). His uncle is a cop and he's on this case. In the hospital, Gallen dreams of Flora pacing around his bed complaining because he was saved and she wasn't.

Soon Gallen starts acting in a strange manner at times. He went to shave and instead, he found that he shaved his legs. He cut his hair and got rid of his wart without even knowing it. Apparently, Flora has been using his body. Flora tried to get a job at her old company but they wouldn't hire Gallen (Flora in his body) because of his lack of qualifications. Therefore, he goes to the extreme and dresses up as a woman for the company ball. There, Gallen (Flora in his body) tries to entice the boss and is successful. Gallen wakes up the next morning in a hotel room with no recollection of how he came about dressed up as a woman…

> Episodes 3-4
Gallen is really confused and knows that there's definitely something wrong now. He hails a cab and goes back home. However, he sees his fiancée on his way back and he tries to run really fast so that she doesn't see him. Unfortunately, he drops his wallet and his fiancée picks it up. She runs after him thinking that it's Gallen's other girlfriend. Gallen makes his way home and begs his uncle for help.

Gallen's uncle takes him to the paintball site again to burn some incense for Flora, hoping to appease her spirit.

Kong Wah is accused of murdering his wife, Flora. Everyone in the company behaves differently towards him.

Flora shows up at Gallen's house again. His uncle is able to see her and they have a little chat. Flora confides in him that she can only enter Gallen's body when the temperature is less than 26° C. Gallen's uncle asks her to leave and threatens to capture her spirit. Flora gets angry and gets into Gallen's body again and hits his uncle with a bat. Gallen's uncle ends up in a coma at the hospital.

Gallen is now helpless so he asks his two friends to videotape all the actions of "Diana" (Diana is the name Flora uses when she takes over Gallen's body). "Diana" shows up for work at Pessotto (the name of the company that Flora worked for). She requests that Kong Wah be on the same advertising assignment as her and the boss agrees. "Diana" pretends to be Flora's ex-classmate. She and Kong Wah both go to the beach to oversee the photographer take pictures of the models for their advertisement. Kong Wah and "Diana" talk about Flora and end up falling asleep on the beach. In the morning, Gallen awakens on top of Kong Wah and sees that he's dressed as a woman again. Pissed, he rips off the woman's clothes and tries to leave but realizes that he left his wallet behind. It happens to be on top of Kong Wah and he awakens Kong Wah while retrieving the wallet. Kong Wah thinks that Gallen's gay and that he's trying to mess with him (this part was really funny).

Annoyed, Gallen goes home and watches the video that his friends taped of "Diana". He decides to use the video as evidence and calls Kong Wah to explain that Flora has been using his body. Flora enters his body and takes him to the roof of the building and threatens to jump. Gallen is forced to allow Flora to use his body.

Gallen is also forced to admit to Kong Wah that he's gay. The next day "Diana" goes she work. She looks after her sister and brother. She also overhears Florence's conversation on the phone and thinks that Florence murdered her. Therefore, she follows her the next day but ends up losing her. Instead, "Diana" finds out about Nicola's (Flora's sister) real personality-that she likes to go clubbing and tries to talk to her but Nicola is very rude to her.

"Diana" is very discouraged and goes back to the office. She sees Kong Wah on the floor and brings him to the hospital. He apparently took the wrong medicine. Flora orders Gallen to write a letter to Lee Ka Sing (the head cop in charge of the case) and makes Florence look suspicious. She's brought to the police station for questioning the next day.

Flora finds out that Kong Wah has been having an affair for over a year with her secretary, Tong Ying Ying. She's very pissed and goes back to Gallen and enters his body. She gets in the shower and turns on the cold water. Just then, Gallen's uncle returns and turns on the hot water, forcing Flora out of Gallen's body. Uncle urges Flora to move on but Flora won't listen.

 

UNDER CONSTRUCTION


3/16/99

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