同人A young environmentalist wakes, trapped, kidnapped in the elevator of a super high-rise building at the mercy of her tormentors
同人A young environmentalist wakes, trapped, kidnapped in the elevator of a super high-rise building at the mercy of her tormentors
回复 :《歌舞昇平》裡有幾個如果是肥皂劇劇情肯定會被安排連成一線的家庭,他們口中的悲慘命運是如此曖昧地有異曲同工之妙,令人在觀看時會想那是誰的誰,那人跟那人又有什麼關係。其實唯一的關聯是五個家庭同樣領取「綜援」,但每個故事卻往不同方向發展。他們貧窮的理由或許不一樣,處境也不一樣,結果,卻都發展成十分相似的生活狀態,殊途同歸的境地,幾乎都是對貧窮的習慣和適應,影片裡穿插著過年的片段,又和典型中國人過年有難以區分的相同與不同。The film explores the hidden face of poverty in one of the world's most affluent and capitalistic cities. Directed by CHEUNG King Wai (KJ Music and Life), the film follows five Hong Kong families of different backgrounds that receive government subsidies. How do the poor get by in a glossy city that flaunts conspicuous consumption and hides poverty in cavernous public housing estates All's Right With The World shares the different stories of these low-income families, their daily living conditions, and their ways of celebrating Chinese New Year.获奖情况:2008年 入圍第32屆香港國際電影節競賽單元2008年 入圍韓國首爾獨立電影電視節2008年 入圍第20屆飛帕電影節
回复 :The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family's history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years.At the crux, however, it's the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with.But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family's world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe's clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood.I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential.by D.R. SHIMON@lounge.moviecodec.com
回复 :著名大學醫學院教授林惜家(黃秋生 飾),專門研究人類可以長時間不需睡眠的方法。一天,前女友丘夢熙(吳俐璇 飾)突然現身求助,原來她的家人全部患上失眠症,病情去到末期,病人更會陷入失常狀態、極具攻擊性!為探究真相,林惜家開始連串恐怖實驗:潛入停屍間偷取病人大腦,又把丘夢熙關在密室軟禁,藉此研究睡眠和大腦蛋白質之間的關係…隨著實驗愈深入,蹊蹺的事情不斷在丘夢熙身上發生;就連林惜家也看似受感染,心底開始出現吃人肉的慾望… 原來一切牽涉到45年前,孿生姐妹侯文媛和侯文禎(衛詩雅 分飾)的一宗倫常慘案有關!