| Benjamin Heng, Joseph Cheong, Jasmine
Ng Kin Kia
Billed as a motorcycle kung fu love story,
this film, the first for critic-turned-director Kelvin Tong, aptly
captures the listless, pop culture-obsessed lives of Asia's youth.
Boy (Benjamin Heng) works at a dead-end job while fantasizing about
being a martial arts master. After his buddy, Ah Gu (Joseph Cheong),
who has ambitions of being a motorcycle gangster, gets involved
in a drug deal that quickly goes south, he begs Boy for help. Meanwhile,
Boy happens upon the shy, though beautiful Girl (Alvina Toh), a
student who works at her mother's copy shop. This film was screened
at the 2000 Rotterdam Film Festival. |