YOUR ACADEMIC INSTINCTS ARE SPOT-ON, MADAM. DO NOT WISH FOR ANYTHING. I DON’T CARE IF HE LOOKS LIKE IDRIS ELBA.
The amazing thing is, the character in THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING knows this. And clearly she’s going to do it anyway. I may even go see this film, if only to see if she does the smart thing with said wish. Because there’s only one way out of this kind of mess.
I think the appropriate phrase here is “Contractual Genre Blindness”. She understood that the story required her to be that foolish. 🙂