Realização:
Edmond Ho-cheung PangCâmara:
Nelson Yu Lik-waiMúsica:
Gabriele RobertoElenco:
Josie Ho Chiu-yee, Michelle Ye, Norman Chu, Eason Chan, Lawrence Chou, Juno Mak, Jo Kuk Cho-lam, Kwok-cheung Tsang, Hai-peng Lu, Nina Paw, Chu-chu Zhou (mais)Sinopses(1)
This extreme slasher film from director Pang Ho-cheung stars Josie Ho as Cheng Lai-Sheung, a woman in Hong Kong whose goal is to live in a place where she has a view of Victoria harbor. She goes to desperate, often illegal, means to raise the funds required to live in such prime real estate, but no matter how hard she tries she can't ever seem to reach the ever-increasing funds needed. Then one day she realizes that her dream is worth killing for. (texto oficial do distribuidor)
(mais)Críticas (4)
A CAT III solution to the housing problem... with a very graphic demonstration of the causes of the financial crisis. 75%
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This film has two storylines: one of them follows an apparently fragile Asian girl mercilessly and brutally mowing one person after another, the second follows the same woman in her usual social mode and the events explain her motivations to do what she does in the first storyline. In the end, everything connects logically, but I have a little problem because my Western European brain doesn’t see those motivations as fully sufficient. The horror aspect, however, works perfectly, the whole thing is gloomy and dreary, the victims have almost no chance of surviving their encounter with that killing machine. It’s very likely that we won’t see better murders this year. 75 %
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The workers take back their space. And they take the die-hard capitalist view that everyone is responsible for their own happiness to an appropriate extreme. A bold thesis about a heroine looking all her life at the door slowly closing on her dream, deciding at the last moment to stick her foot in it. And we don't have much reason not to root for her seeing as how she's done the legal maximum of what she could so far to get her way, but even that wasn't enough. Still, it's not a one-sided hypocritical poor girl's war against the decadent and bored rich, because in her quest for happiness, she doesn't stop at brutally butchering mere arbitrators in quite possibly in the same social position as she is (janitors, prostitutes, Filipino maids, policemen). Either way, it's a bravura indictment of the system with incredibly brachial violence, where no one asked if this wasn't a bit much. With starring turns by a plastic puller, a carpet cutter, a screwdriver, a plastic bag with a vacuum cleaner, a hammer, a kitchen knife, a broken board, a revolver, and the will to get your way. Leave the pity and sense of justice at home. As well as the need for constant reminders that all of the protagonist's action is not really forensically bulletproof.
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The film Dream Home introduces us to the Hong Kong school of special effects, which makes itself known in a really great way. Here, the killing hurts, and this is where you see it all and you think, “Jesus, how could they have shot it so well, the camera simply won't budge?" And it works. There's also a certain social-critical overlap that's not as strong, but it has its place here too. Most of all, though, you'll remember the massacre.
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