The Runaway Pistol (Chinese) 2002

August 15, 2008 · Posted in Action, Chinese Movies, Movies

Aka: Zouhou qiang
Year: 2002
Directed: Wah Chuen Lam
Genre: Action
Runtime: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English
Cast: Kenneth Bi, Crystal Lui, Chun-Chun Wong, Wilson Yip
Imdb: Zouhou qiang

Synopsis / Plot

Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Is that so? But guns sure make people trigger-happy, like power readily fills people with the urge to abuse it. The runaway pistol, which has a life of its own, travels from the underbelly of Mongkok to seedy Shenzhen across the border. It finds its way into the hands of a motley crowd of characters, and claims the lives of a sex worker, a small-time hood, troubled teenagers, and innocent and not-so-innocent bystanders, in manners absurd and inglorious. In his debut as director, Lam Wah Chuen, long-time collaborator of Fruit Chan as cinematographer and composer, fashions a one-of-a-kind road movie that is a complex kaleidoscope of images, and with an intensity bordering on the subversive and the unreal. A cruel fairy tale about a city on the verge of moral meltdown.