Xilu Xiang
Little Cheung
Pequeño Cheung
Año/País: 1999 / Hong Kong
Duración: 101 minutos
Género: Comedia, Drama
Reparto: Yiu Yuet-ming, Mak Wai-fan, Mak Yuet-man,Chu Sun-yau, Gary Lai.
Review | Hong Kong DVD Review | IMDB |
Ripeada por scarecrown en AllZine que escribió:La película nos muestra las vivencias de un niño de 9 años, la relación con su abuela y una amiga de su misma edad, pronto se dará cuenta que el dinero lo mueve todo.
Una gran película de Fruit Chan que nos enseña a través del pequeño Cheung un Hong Kong a las puertas de la reunificación con el gigante, sus calles, la inmigración ilegal, y demás trasfondos políticos
sogoodreviews.com escribió:Plot Synopsis
Coming to a close now with his theme of the 1997 Handover with Little Cheung, writer/director Fruit Chan has examined characters in different stages of development during the times leading up to July 1st 1997. Made In Hong Kong presented teenagers in aimless state of being, The Longest Summer adults who were abandoned in the change and now in Little Cheung, the very last rays of innocence gets the spotlight, the children. As expected by now, Chan provides a somber portrayal of Hong Kong but nonetheless an entry that complements the former two and stands on its own, splendidly so.
Spring 1997. 9 year old Little Cheung (Yiu Yuet-Ming) and his family runs a restaurant, frequently hassled by triad David (Robin Lau, billed here as Robby). One day Cheung spots Fan (Mak Wai-Fan) while she's applying for a delivery job. He follows her to find out where she and her family lives, which turns out to be in the back alleys of Hong Kong, as illegal immigrants from China. Cheung has learned that money is important, and together with Fan he starts delivering dishes, putting money into his and her own pocket without his family's knowledge. That is soon about to be disrupted, in a time where the Hong Kong people are especially on the edge...
strictly film school escribió:Little Cheung (Yiu Yuet-Ming) has learned that money and existence are inextricably connected to each other: "I've known from an early age, money is a dream. It's a fantasy. It's also a future." His doting grandmother, a former Chinese opera actress, spends her afternoons gambling at a mah jong parlor. His grandmother's affable and religious Filipina maid comically reminds everyone that she is entitled to overtime payment for working on Sundays. Even his namesake, a national celebrity and his grandmother's former acquaintance, Brother Cheung, appears on television for public fund raising activities. It is a lesson that is not lost on Little Cheung as he delivers food on his bicycle for his father's restaurant, using his charm and boyish good looks to entice customers into leaving him bigger tips. Nevertheless, the purpose for accumulating money is one that seems alien to the enterprising boy, as he squanders his earnings to secure a special ordered Tamagotchi electronic toy pet. But Little Cheung has another, far more serious goal: to reunite with his older brother who was disowned by his father after falling into delinquency. One day, an immigrant little girl from mainland China named Fan (Mak Wai-Fan) inquires about a posted delivery job at the family restaurant and is immediately chased away by Little Cheung's father. The episode captures Little Cheung's attention, and he decides to follow Fan and offer her a job assisting him in his deliveries for a share of the collected tip money. It is a mutually beneficial association that leads to a close friendship between the two children. However, Little Cheung's attempts to find his brother prove to have serious consequences as his search causes disharmony in the family and indirectly threatens to expose the illegal residency of Fan's family.
Little Cheung is a poignant, lyrical, and compassionate film on materialism and loss of innocence. By illustrating the stark contrast between the privileged, insular life of Little Cheung and the meager existence of Fan (who is often shown in exterior shots), Fruit Chan illustrates the inherent social dichotomy between Hong Kong residents and mainland Chinese immigrants during the transitional period prior to the handover of Hong Kong. As in Chan's subsequent film, Durian Durian, the harsh life and eventual fate of young Fan and her family serve to underscore the economic and social disparity that tend to divide, rather than unite, the two regions: the image of children, presumably mainland Chinese immigrants, being removed from school seems incongruous with the latter image of Hong Kong children learning the official Chinese salute. But in the end, Fan's naive declaration that "Hong Kong is ours", like the promise of wealth and a brighter future in post-handover Hong Kong, proves to be an unattainable dream.
Duración: 101 minutos
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