Besieged City (Chinese) 2008
Synopsis / Plot
Lawrence Lau (aka Lawrence Ah Mon) is without a doubt one of Hong Kong’s best and most under-appreciated directors, specializing in gutter-trawling tales of down-and-out youth frittering their lives away in an endless orgy of petty crime and street hustles. GANGS, SPACKED OUT and QUEEN OF TEMPLE STREET are all essential parts of the Hong Kong canon (especially QUEEN OF TEMPLE STREET about a brothel madam dealing with her out-of-control teenage daughter; it’s a movie that deserves the Criterion treatment). He still directs like a madman, with Lau Ching-wan’s MY NAME IS FAME as his latest highest-profile movie, but he also recently made A CITY WITHOUT BASEBALL which was released in November, 2007.
His newest film is BESIEGED CITY about kids going berserk in the Tin Shui Wai housing development, one of the towns built out in the middle of the New Territories that wound up becoming traps for their residents as much as they provided affordable housing. Mei Ah, the film’s distributor has high hopes for the film and although it’s not slated to be released in Hong Kong until March, 2008 they held a one-day qualifying run so it could be nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards. A sharp-eyed reader found out about the screening and here’s their report, right from the front lines.
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lol no english subs?? =(.
Oooh, crud. I watched this with one of my sisters before dinner and then after dinner, I rewatched it with my other sister. I really think this is a good movie. Something about it is definitely unique. Where I live, what happens to those teenagers is really uncommon. Or so I think. To me, it’s something enlightening, opening my eyes to the darker side of society. The setting is so appropriate: towering gray buildings that all look the same and the foggy sky. Gives me the horror vibe, and what some of those gangster guys do are really, horribly scary! I woke up this morning feeling bad for those teenagers… it was the first thing that came to my mind when I woke up. The movie felt so real although I’ve never known things like that can happen. The pace was good; I found myself as eager as the main character to discover his brother’s life with the delinquents. Although the friendship between those teenagers isn’t how we normally perceive friendship, something about it touched me. The wall with their inscribed nicknames added a nice touch. Thanks for this movie! It’s unique, inspiring, moving, educational, and something more.
Hey, they mentioned about City without Baseball, where can i download it?
is it available here?