First of the movie portrays how a person can love a person of the same gender; unconditional love. But this exact theme isn’t portrayed in SSTLS so far; in this case Lenny and Eunice are aware of their incompatibilities and are willing to make their relationship work. In both story and the movie the females are mostly Asian. Personally, I wouldn’t date a person of my same gender for natural reasons, so I can’t understand what the motivation of man of the movie was or what he felt.
In the story, Lenny a Caucasian is in love with Eunice, a troubled lady from Korean descent whole in the movie the Caucasian is in love with a supposed lady that was really an Asian male. This shows how sometimes women who are emotionally scarred are seen as better partners by men, since they give the man someone to protect. In both stories both the ladies lie to the men to please them. Eunice lies to Lenny by continuing telling him she loves him, while the Asian male tells the Caucasian guy that he is pregnant. I really don’t like lies or liars, because if someone lies, he or she probably won’t have a healthy relationship with the person he or she lied to. Lies are hard to remember for chronic liars, and they make the person lied to assume different things than what reality is.
Also, in both stories, there is a lot of politics involved. In the movie, the womanly dressed man is in charge of giving information to China about USA plans but in the process accidentally falls in love with the Caucasian man. While in the SSTLS, Eunice is politically naïve and Lenny is involved in political affairs through his boss, Joshie. Also, in both stories, revolts and wars are occurring between the US and Asia but the in SSTLS the problem is overspending and major debts. In SSTLS’s case, overspending is a problem today; we are in great debt. The way the author writes the book, gives emphasis to the fact that materials do not make us happy, but people we love do; materials only blind us from reality i.e. how Eunice and other media people are consumed into the Aparat.
Eunice and her family were dysfunctional since the woman was inferior to man; her father believed hurting them was fine, as long as he prayed before he did it. In the movie, the Asian women were also inferior to the men. The horrible fact was that the women accepted it. The ironic thing is that, right now 2010, even though people say women are equal as men, it doesn’t seem like it. Subconsciously men are more likely to get better jobs and paid better than females.
The major difference is that the movie is based in a past, non technological time, while SSTLS is settled in an advanced futuristic world. Their major similarities during different eras, implies that bad times and situations can happen at any time, like a cycle.
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