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Andy Lau,
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Wong Kar-Wai,
Wong Kar-Wai
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: Kino
: Foreign, Hong Kong, Crime, Gangsters
: 102 min.
: Cantonese
: English
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Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai makes his feature film debut with this gritty romantic crime-drama inspired by Scorsese's Mean Streets. The film opens with young gangster Wah (Andy Lau) getting a visit for the day from his beautiful cousin Ah-Ngor (Maggie Cheung), who is coming into Kowloon from the remote outlying Lantau island to receive medical treatment for a lung condition. At first, the short-fused gangster and the quiet country girl have little in common, but gradually the two start to form a bond of sorts. Meanwhile, Wah's buddy Fly (Jacky Cheung), who has an absolutely volcanic temper, is always getting Wah into hot water. Even though Wah knows that Fly is bound to end up dead soon, he stands by his foolhardy friend. After some hesitation, Wah -- who has fallen for Ah-Ngor -- visits his cousin on Lantau, hoping to make their relationship more than family. Fly later infuriates a psychopathic mob boss, Tony (Alex Man Chi-leung who, along with his henchmen, beats and degrades Fly and Wah. This induces Fly make amends with Tony by undertaking the outrageously difficult task of rubbing out an informant who is in the custody of the cops, before the man has the opportunity to testify in a court hearing.
~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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by talltale
April 20, 2005 - 2:18 PM PDT
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3 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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Kar Wai Wong's AS TEARS GO BY makes an interesting companion piece to his "Days of Being Wild," filmed three years later. My initial reaction is that the titles ought to be reversed. The latter film is really more of an unrequited love story, while "Tears" is full of violence and comes off as infinitely "wilder." Otherwise, the interest here lies mainly in how far Wong has come as an artist in those three years.
"Tears," never boring and often riveting, offers a very young Maggie Cheung, Jackie Cheung, and a knockout performance from Andy Lau (easy to see why he zoomed to the top of the Hong Kong heap) in a story about family, honor/face, crime, love and revenge. The photography here is sumptuous and colorful, but still not up to the Chris Doyle level that would soon follow. This one's probably best recommended to incipient Wong fans and those who, like me, want to catch up on ALL his films. |
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