[youtube]1C1OCnmVpnA[/youtube] Dubbed the "City of Sadness", Hong Kong's Tin Shui Wai became the subject of much local scrutiny in 2007 and 2008 for its myriad socioeconomic problems and tragic fallouts. The city's high rates of suicide, unemployment, domestic violence, and youth crime raised a red flag that exploded in the media after a series of headline-splashing suicides. Tin Shui Wai quickly became the backdrop for two films - Lawrence Lau's gritty youth film Besieged City and Ann Hui's low-key docudrama The Way We Are - that provide two very different visions of life in the City of Sadness. While Lau's tale of wayward teens highlighted the city's much-publicized problems, Ann Hui (The Postmodern Life of My Aunt, Boat People) steadfastly avoids sensationalism or drama in her organic study of the way people are in Tin Shui Wai. Possibly the most realistic portrayal of everyday life in Hong Kong ever put to the silver screen, The Way We Are steps seamlessly into the world of Hong Kong's lower working class amid the city's ubiquitous housing estates. The film unobtrusively follows the lives of kindhearted working mother Mrs. Cheung (veteran actress Pau Hei Ching), her blank but agreeable teenage son Ka On (newcomer Juno Leung), and their lonely elderly neighbor who works at the same supermarket as Mrs. Cheung. Through the seemingly uneventful cycle of work, grocery shopping, reluctant fellowship meetings, humorously mundane conversations, and the same old dinner, Ann Hui captures a remarkably realistic slice of Hong Kong life that is eye-opening and genuinely enjoyable. ENJOY THE MOVIE? SUPPORT BY BUYING A COPY AT YESASIA! CLICK HERE.
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Even though the movie didn't have much to talk about.. It really makes you reflect some of the life style in lower class and quite frankly, it's really realistic... When the movie ends, it made me think quite a bit and what is the meaning of life which the movie does not answer for you...
it really has a HK feel...most of you young people will probably say its boring -lol because it shows what a normal family does on a daily bases in HK -lol i enjoyed it...because it's about life!
Thanks... looks pretty good. And if you guys like 'realistic' HK films, watch Made in Hong Kong or some other Fruit Chan titles
Don't know why, when you are from Hong Kong, you will feel the resonance. I came from HK and be back 3 years for 2 weeks. This film made me have the realistic sad feel. It is a good film for young people too. Pretty artistic.
This upload was too late for me. Had been waiting for a long time, so I d/l from another website. I liked this film very much. One of the best Chinese movies ever seen. I liked the way the characters were developed. I also liked the seamless plot, when many may argue that there is no plot
Watched this movie recently, I think it is pretty goodin the way they show the struggling of young and old people in everyday life
