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Sean Tierney
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Movie Review: Love at Seventh Sight

Ideally, this entry would have been a movie review:

I had ventured out in some of the worst pollution in recent memory all the way to Elements, that most vacuous of malls, filled with luxury stores and expensive restaurants where Mainland tourists are catered to, Where rich expat gweilolive, and the rest of us can f@#$ off.

I was meeting the Movie Night gang, albeit a reduced contingent, to see Love at Seventh Sight, directed by Alfred Cheung. I had been forewarned that it was made for China.

The pollution was so bad I nearly canceled my place with the Gang. But I don't get a lot of social interaction, and they are some of my best friends, and I'd been trapped in the house by the smog for two days.

I ended up going out, and buying cough syrup, which I really dislike. But I figured that at least it would take the rough, crap-soaked edge off of what was very likely going to be a tough viewing experience.

I have previously written that I can't really tolerate local films made for China. It's not China's fault, it's the local filmmakers'. They get lazy because they think China is a huge mass of sai dai lok with the film literacy of a stick of butter.

Well, last night, after putting up with 20 minutes of this tedium, I suddenly realized that I didn't have to stay.

I told my friends I was sorry, but I was not about to sacrifice another hour of my life for this piece of shit.So I left. I got up and walked out of the theatre.I walked to the MTR and went home. And I feel much better for it.

I used to ponder avoiding LMFC (Locally Made for China) films.From now on, I will.

over 15 years ago 0 likes  6 comments  0 shares
Mariejost 26 dsc00460
Jeez, the HK film industry keep slitting its wrists in pursuit of the almighty yuan. Too bad that now we mostly speak of HK film in the past tense--as if that golden age of film was some now distant memory (and, if they don't hurry up and create archival editions of these films, it will be). Now I understand why Wong Kar Wai took 3 years out of his creative life to get at least some of his films in acceptable editions for posterity (Ashes of Time, Fallen Angels and Happy Together). Given how hard it is to find decent editions of any HK film that is older than a few years, this is a serious problem. Any news on the purported film archive that I heard about for a 10 minutes, and then nothing more? Those films from the 80s and 90s really are HK's cultural legacy, and so many of them seem to have already disappeared (though, of course, a great percentage of them are not masterpieces). I hope in the future the history of HK films isn't going to be told in books, using a few still photographs and written synopses of the plots. We need the films and, more importantly, it sounds like today's filmmakers (many of them too young to actually have experienced the golden age as adult filmmakers) need to see these films and figure out how some of that energy, passion and devil-may-care attitude towards film making can be translated into contemporary terms (and the Mainland damned)!
over 15 years ago
Rob
Dude....you GOTTA get me in on your movie club just so I can sit in the theater and seethe with you!! hahahahha
over 15 years ago
45862083 0af2fd4d5d
doh! Rachel Tan will be very disappointed in you Sean!
over 15 years ago

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April 1, 2008