During the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, two films featuring actresses appeared, including "Wonder Women" (2007) starring Gigi Leung Wing-Kei and Fiona Sit, and "Kidnap" (2007) starring Rene Liu Ruo-Ying and Karena Lam Kar-Yan. The former is a story of the struggle of a businesswoman adapted from Anita Leung Fung-Yee's novel, while the latter is director Law Chi-Leung of "Inner Senses" (2002) and "Koma" (2004), and then cooperates with his old partner Karena Lam and the good actress Rene Liu. The combination is expected.
After Law Chi-Leung finished filming "Koma" starring Karena Lam and Angelica Lee Sinje, he made a semi-cartoon youth comedy "Bug Me Not!" (2005). He deliberately changed the way of the film, hoping to get rid of the image of a horror film director, but "Bug Me Not!" does not matter at the box office. And the comments are unsatisfactory. This time, Law Chi-Leung focuses on the theme of police and bandits again. Although there is no horror element of "Koma", the battle of wits between Karena Lam, who plays the kidnapper Lam Hiu-Yeung, and Rene Liu, who plays the policewoman Ho Yuan-Chun, still has few horror scenes for Law Chi-Leung to play, but he instead, the focus is on the issue of identity. Lam Hiu-Yeung became a kidnapper from being a victim of kidnapping; while Ho Yuan-Chun became a kidnapping victim from the policewoman who chased the kidnappers.
During the identity change, the character's change in mentality becomes the interesting part of the film. Lam Hiu-Yeung's partner made a mistake and found that the kidnapper was not the son of Wang Sen, a rich man played by Guo Tao, but the son of Ho Yuan-Chun. This is obviously taken from Akira Kurosawa's classic film "High and Low" (1963) with a variation. However, in the second half of the film, especially after Chi played by Eddie Cheung Siu-Fai, traced that Lam Hiu-Yeung was the kidnapper, the psychological state of the two heroines began to get out of control. The complex psychological struggles and irreparable mistakes required more in-depth descriptions, while the two actresses appeared powerless. Especially Rene Liu, who reluctantly recites Cantonese dialogues, her dialogues in Cantonese and Mandarin are too different in the film, but her efforts are worthy of admiration.
By Kam Po LAM (original in Chinese)
After Law Chi-Leung finished filming "Koma" starring Karena Lam and Angelica Lee Sinje, he made a semi-cartoon youth comedy "Bug Me Not!" (2005). He deliberately changed the way of the film, hoping to get rid of the image of a horror film director, but "Bug Me Not!" does not matter at the box office. And the comments are unsatisfactory. This time, Law Chi-Leung focuses on the theme of police and bandits again. Although there is no horror element of "Koma", the battle of wits between Karena Lam, who plays the kidnapper Lam Hiu-Yeung, and Rene Liu, who plays the policewoman Ho Yuan-Chun, still has few horror scenes for Law Chi-Leung to play, but he instead, the focus is on the issue of identity. Lam Hiu-Yeung became a kidnapper from being a victim of kidnapping; while Ho Yuan-Chun became a kidnapping victim from the policewoman who chased the kidnappers.
During the identity change, the character's change in mentality becomes the interesting part of the film. Lam Hiu-Yeung's partner made a mistake and found that the kidnapper was not the son of Wang Sen, a rich man played by Guo Tao, but the son of Ho Yuan-Chun. This is obviously taken from Akira Kurosawa's classic film "High and Low" (1963) with a variation. However, in the second half of the film, especially after Chi played by Eddie Cheung Siu-Fai, traced that Lam Hiu-Yeung was the kidnapper, the psychological state of the two heroines began to get out of control. The complex psychological struggles and irreparable mistakes required more in-depth descriptions, while the two actresses appeared powerless. Especially Rene Liu, who reluctantly recites Cantonese dialogues, her dialogues in Cantonese and Mandarin are too different in the film, but her efforts are worthy of admiration.
By Kam Po LAM (original in Chinese)
