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Writers:
Goo-Bi GC (writer)
Ho-Cheung Pang (screenplay)
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Release Date:
13 September 2007 (Hong Kong) more
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Behind every conspiracy lies an incredible truth.
Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations more
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Tone shift is jarring, but a decidedly original film nonetheless. more (6 total)

Cast

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Simon Yam ... Tsim Kin-Yip
Annie Liu ... Ann
Nick Cheung ... Kwan Ping-Man
Irene Wan ... Pun Siu-Yuen
Maggie Siu ... Fong
On-on Yu ... Ann's mother
Lap-Man Sin ... Ann's father
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Sui-man Chim ... Man in wheelchair
Goo-Bi GC ... Professor of electronics
Ka Tung Lam ... Fai
Gregory Charles Rivers ... Duty officer
Shaw Yin Yin ... Professor of poison
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Chu ai ji ji (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Exodus (Hong Kong: English title)
Pang Ho-Cheung's Exodus (Australia)
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Canada:94 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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2.35 : 1 more
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17 out of 18 people found the following comment useful.
Tone shift is jarring, but a decidedly original film nonetheless., 14 September 2007
7/10
Author: Brian Thibodeau from Ontario, Canada

The opening shot, a slow, meticulous dolly backwards down a hallway, says it all. It begins with a tight closeup of a pair of alluring female eyes in a photograph. The subject of the portrait is revealed to be Queen Elizabeth II, and beneath it stand two men in swim trunks, goggles and flippers who light up smokes and casually redirect a Hong Kong police officer who has unwittingly entered the doorway at screen left. These must be cops, and as the frame continues to open up, we notice two, then three, then four more of these "frogmen" beating a suspect with mallets and phone books as he struggles violently to flee.

"All the hatred of this world are caused by men," claims one of the film's female characters, but as evidenced by this gorgeous opening shot, much of it happens under the watchful eye of condoning women, and in pondering the question of why the female almost always outlives the male, as well as what they talk about when they go to the ladies' room together, writer-director Edmond Pang, along with co-writers Cheuk-Wan-chi and Jimmy Wan Chi- man, have crafted a sleek black comedy that, strangely, doesn't manifest most of its inherent dark whimsy until well into the final reel.

Nagged by a condescending mother-in-law who only sees value in a man who runs his own business, and long ago demoted to a desk job as a reward for interdepartmental whistle-blowing, bored and complacent police sergeant SImon Yam begrudges a favor to a fellow officer and agrees to take a statement from a peeping Tom (Nick Cheung), who foams profanely about a top-secret organization of women plotting the elimination of the male species, one unsuspecting rube at a time. Yam thinks little of it, until the report disappears from the evidence room and the suspect one-eighties his story after a visit from a smarmy female senior officer. Eager to learn why such a patently ludicrous story would need to be hushed up, he soon comes to the realization that Cheung was telling the truth!

Artfully directed and photographed (by Charlie Lam Chi-kin) with an emphasis on static, contemplative frame compositions the seem to grow organically from the modernist architecture that dominates the locations, but the concept begs for a playfulness that the filmmakers seem to avoid until the last ten minutes of the picture. The build-up is played with such a straight face that sequences which all but confirm the existence of the assassination club pass with nary a raised eyebrow. Perhaps that was the point, but the shift in tone is nonetheless jarring. Yam underplays nicely throughout, as if his character knows all too well how ridiculous his mission might seem to those looking in. Fine music score by Gabriele Roberto features exceptional piano solos by Aiko Takai. 7.

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