Mr. Cinema

Mr. Cinema also known as Call Me Left (老港正傳) is a 2007 Hong Kong film starring Anthony Wong, Teresa Mo, Ronald Cheng and Karen Mok.

Mr. Cinema
Directed bySamson Chiu
Produced byHenry Fong Ping
StarringAnthony Wong
Teresa Mo
Ronald Cheng
Karen Mok
Music byLeon Ko
Release date
  • 14 July 2007 (2007-07-14)
Running time
110 minutess
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Plot

The story is about a pro-communist leftist Zhou Heung-Kong (Anthony Wong) who grew up in the pre-1997 British colony of Hong Kong starting from the 1950s. He lives with his wife Ying (Teresa Mo) who mostly raises the family by herself. Zhou has fantasies of going to Tiananmen Square, but has always been too poor to do so. They eventually find themselves in a HK transferred over to the People's Republic of China. In the end Zhou realised he sacrificed everything for the communist cause, and his family is left with nothing.

Cast

Production note

The film has been criticised for its "selective history" for covering a long period of HK's history, but does not mention the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests.[1] The Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots was only covered briefly, and China's support for its HK-based loyalists is never addressed.[1] The name of Anthony Wong's character Zhou Heung Kong is pronounced similar to "Left(ist) Hong Kong".

Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews. One of them, by Vivienne Chow of Muse magazine, applauded Chiu for 'initiating the idea of telling a Hong Kong story from the perspective of the leftists for the first time,' but deemed the movie 'ultimately overambitious'.[2]

gollark: The mail people can look at your data, as can anyone with access to your mailbox.
gollark: If the postal system was a messaging service, I would not rate it highly.
gollark: Nonzero cost, delays, *writing* on physical paper (or printing, even), not much security, no anonymous messaging. It's just bad.
gollark: It seems strictly worse unless you're sending physical objects.
gollark: It's probably more convenient than carrying around multiple things as long as your phone is consistently available.

See also

References
  1. Lovehkfilm.com. "Lovehkfilm.com." Mr. Cinema. Retrieved on 2010-03-12.
  2. Chow, Vivienne (July 2007). "Mr Cinema". Muse Magazine (6): 88–89.


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