Longest Summer

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Audience Member Wonderful film. Fruit Chan is a master director. Historical. An epic in scope. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member [img]http://www.twinkle.com.hk/postcard/giveaways/gac028.jpg[/img] A somewhat convoluted, somewhat rambling story about the impact of the transition from British Colony to Chinese SAR in the summer of 1997. Its mostly about a group of former British HK Soldiers, who find themselves out of a career, and left with nothing when the Brits fail to fullfill their promises of giving new careers. They find themselves resorting to crime to get what they feel they deserve. That plot aside, I enjoyed the fact that the events (and feelings) of HK people during the handover period are captured on film. (I'm curious if Fruit Chan had this whole story planned ahead of time or just filmed the handover activities and then wrote a movie around them. Particularly the scenes of the movie that take place during the fancy new bridge opening ceremony, no way to fake that right?) But more then anything it shows the death of the old and birth of a new life in HK. [img]http://www.fdk-berlin.de/forum99/longest-summer.jpg[/img] The bank robbery scene actually reminded me a bit of [url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=81599&entryid=33402&view=public"]the korean movie 'Jakarta' I reviewed a few weeks ago[/url] -- what happens when more than one group of people try to rob the same bank at the same time? Some of the subplots are a bit extraneous (the girl!) and slow in some parts and way too quick in others (what happened to Zipper!!?!?) But Tony Ho and Sam Lee are pretty good in their roles. The filming is pretty nice, except for the cinematographer's fixation on cold, stark concrete geometrical architecture... Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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