A Very Short Life
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- Movie: A Very Short Life
- Chinese: 短暂的生命 (Duen chaam dik sung ming)
- Director: Dennis Law
- Writer: Dennis Law
- Producer: Dennis Law
- Cinematographer: Herman Yau
- Release Date: March 19, 2006
- Runtime:
- Language: Cantonese
- Country: Hong Kong
Plot
Respectable Police Commissioner Josephine reinvestigates an insignificant murder case of a 11 years old girl. The murderer is the mother of the victim, Becky. Under intense interrogation, Becky refuses to admit that she knew all along that her boyfriend was raping her little daughter at home.
The harsh interrogation drives Becky into killing herself. What is the truth that the raging Commissioner is trying to find out? What is the seeemingly defenseless mother hiding? Or is she actually telling the truth?
Cast
- Leila Tong - Becky Lee
- Maggie Siu - Josephine Wong
- Pinky Cheung - Cat
- Samuel Pang - Jo
- Koni Lui - Barbara
- Sherman Tang - Ivy
- Siu-Fai Cheung - Dennis Law
- Wai-yan Cheung - Joey
- Shiu Hung Hui
- Yoyo Law - Ho Heiyi
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HK Neo Reviews Says:
Aug 06 2009 12:46 am
All in all, A Very Short Life is easily Dennis Law most ambitious film and probably most disturbing (if you exclude his production credits in Gong Tau), but also most disappointing. The film stops when it shouldn’t, prolong when it should have been cut and the added presence of irrelevant characters, ultimately all added up to spoil the broth. Sometimes, if you want to push a subject matter, it is no point just to take a glimpse of it, but rather one should get to the bottom of it. It is disappointing that the film have its potential, the premises and the lead actors, but nothing really follow through. It is once again, the case of what could have been and the effect is leaving A Very Short Life, in the middle of the traffic, an average film at best, nothing more and nothing less … (Neo 2009)
I rate it 6/10