Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
Dir. Amos Why, Nora Lam
Hong Kong 2019, 18’
Subtitles: Polish & English
In an age of downloadable love, ties are quickly established and just as quickly severed. Chasing after an ideal romance, a young woman meets and sleeps with different men through dating apps but is unable to develop a relationship, hence her body and the bodies of her paramours get closer yet their hearts are far apart and the gap seems unbridgeable.
In this modern romance, the glare of a smartphone screen and the convenience of a dating app define how we connect but, in the end, our love lives are dictated by the same old hopes, lies, desires, and disappointments as we struggle to make a connection with others and not get hurt. Thanks to technology, this struggle is made a merry-go-round which we stay on as we chase the dream of getting a better outcome next time around.
Amos Why
Film/TV graduate of HKAPA and held postgraduate qualification in Multimedia, Psychology and Sports. He has been a writer-director for Radio Television Hong Kong’s commissioning documentaries and single episode TV drama since 2001, first co-wrote Ultra Reinforcement with comedian-director Lam Tsz-chung in 2011 and directed his first feature Dot 2 Dot in 2014. Joining The Open University of Hong Kong since 2014 and is now a Senior Lecturer. His latest short feature is Four Times Four co-directed with Nora Lam.
Filmography
2014 Dim dui dim
2018 Ni xiang you guai
2018 Myself Found (short)
Cast & Crew
Director: Amos Why, Nora Lam
Screenplay: Nora Lam
Cinematography: Chan Yuen-tat
Editing: Lam Nora
Music: Elizabeth Ng, Serrini
Cast: Jennifer Yu, Elizabeth Ng, Jacky Tong, Wong Yatho, Will Or, Christopher Sin
Producer: Amos Why
Language: Cantonese
Colouration: Colour
