I initially thought this film may be just about casual sex, and it somewhat is, but there is actually quite a bit of emotional charge underneath. The storyline is made up of three parts - two parts are about a heterosexual couple who are unable to meet each other at the station, and so spend a night apart, after already being in a global long distance relationship. The third part is about a homosexual kinship, that is unfortunately short lived, and this part of the storyline does not cross over with the other two. There are slightly Freudian parent-child relations in a few of the story lines.
Part one is about a man's train being delayed. He ends up in a hotel, and is easily led astray and seduced by a porn star. She is looking for something more long term, but after sex, he does not stay with her. At the end, there is a twist of the storyline, and he deeply regrets his decision ...
Part two is about the girlfriend of the man above. He isn't at the station to pick her up, and she is - albeit less easily - led astray in her state of vulnerability, and winds up meeting a man in a club. She eventually falls for him.
Part three is about a handsome taxi driver who picks up a handsome young man. Their relations, too, quickly become physically intimate, yet emotionally tender, too. Similarly, both are looking for something more, and discuss their lives and the future intimately, and want to see each other again. But, being from different parts of the country, feel divided and unfulfilled, and sadly part ways at the end.
The film is pretty aesthetically curious to me - seeing the streets of Hong Kong at night.
Part one is about a man's train being delayed. He ends up in a hotel, and is easily led astray and seduced by a porn star. She is looking for something more long term, but after sex, he does not stay with her. At the end, there is a twist of the storyline, and he deeply regrets his decision ...
Part two is about the girlfriend of the man above. He isn't at the station to pick her up, and she is - albeit less easily - led astray in her state of vulnerability, and winds up meeting a man in a club. She eventually falls for him.
Part three is about a handsome taxi driver who picks up a handsome young man. Their relations, too, quickly become physically intimate, yet emotionally tender, too. Similarly, both are looking for something more, and discuss their lives and the future intimately, and want to see each other again. But, being from different parts of the country, feel divided and unfulfilled, and sadly part ways at the end.
The film is pretty aesthetically curious to me - seeing the streets of Hong Kong at night.