Such speculation, along with Young-chan's confessions of loneliness, prevents the movie from becoming the kind of reassuringly cozy love story of disabled people who find each other and live happily after ever.
In the masterly title story, a laid-off factory worker prospers by converting an abandoned bus in the woods into a cozy love shack and renting it out for quick trysts; like this resourceful soul, Mo Yan transforms the wreckage of everyday life into something useful, cheering and rare.
Leona is my dear friend and she has been sharing Sister Frances and Mamma Gloria stories while we perch on a cozy love seat at her hip restaurant Slide Inn as we sip a big red or two -- for years.
Sure, you end up with a baby you love and plan to raise into the first woman president to invent an eco-friendly cure for cancer, and your body really jacks itself up on cozy love hormones to help you forget what just happened, but there's no way around it: Giving birth is hard. .
