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A chic-surfaced Hong Kong art movie about wasted youth, a sort of Crown Colony Less Than Zero. A group of spoiled Beautiful People (models, aspiring actresses, the languid young heir to a rice fortune) interact randomly until one of them--a Taiwanese woman who clings to her peasant origins--becomes the victim of a bloody murder. At which point, enter Chow Yun-fat, as a Columbo-esque rumpled police inspector, and we're back to HK movie business as usual. (Sigh of relief here.) An eye-opening sequence (designed to show that the veneer of urban civilization is a sorry sham) has the victim-to-be cooking her mother's yummy peasant specialty, Pig Stomach Chicken. The survivors undertake a pilgrimage to their late friend's hometown in rural Taiwan toward the end, demonstrating their own shallowness in the process; an effective if not terribly subtle sequence. This 1988 film marked the big-screen debut of one of Hong Kong's premiere art movie directors, Stanley Kwan. He went on to better things, including Rouge and Centre Stage. --David Chute
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Stanley Kwan |
| MANUFACTURER: | Tai Seng Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| UPC: | 601643244839 |
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Customer Reviews of Love Unto Waste
One of the best Cho Yun-Fat movies While this film's narrative and tones are most ironic and delicate, outlining the plot would be a failure from the beginning. Boy not so brainy(Tony Leung). Birthday party. Accidental encounter with two women (twentysomething and thirtysomething). Youthful promiscuity. Woman found murdered (thirtysomething). Eccentric police investigator (CYF) whose only curiosity is not about the identity of the murderer but the murdered woman's feeling. ("What did she see exactly while she wept?") Unlikely friendship of the investigator and the investigated. Abortion(twentysomething woman). And the most surprising and coldest ending ever made. I would not explain all. Despite the absence of action scene, Chow Yun-Fat is simply incredible. This film was released same year with A Better Tomorrow(1986), you'll see CYF's hair-style exactly same, in spite of huge distance of the roles. Love unto waste is an once-experienced-never-forget kind of movie. If you could get the glimpse of what CYF desparately tried to know, you certainly did not waste your precious time.