I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Original title: Hei yan quan
- 20062006
- 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
A day laborer is badly beaten, and a young man nurses him back to health.A day laborer is badly beaten, and a young man nurses him back to health.A day laborer is badly beaten, and a young man nurses him back to health.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
- Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations
Su-Yee Toh
- Boss's Second Sonas Boss's Second Son
- (as Samantha Toh Su-Yee)
Azman Hassan
- Hooliganas Hooligan
- (as Azman Bin Muhammad Hasan)
Hariry Jalil
- Hooliganas Hooligan
- (as Muhammad Hariry Abdul Jalil)
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- Writer
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Storyline
Forest fires burn in Sumatra; a smoke covers Kuala Lumpur. Grifters beat an immigrant day laborer and leave him on the streets. Rawang, a young man, finds him, carries him home, cares for him, and sleeps next to him. In a loft above lives a waitress. She sometimes provides care and attention. More violence seems a constant possibility. They find another man abandoned on the street, paralyzed. They carry him. While no one speaks to each other, sounds dominate: coughing, cooking, coupling, opening bags; music and news reports on a radio, the rattle and buzz of a restaurant. It's dark in the city at night. We see down hallways, through doors, down alleys. Who sleeps with whom? —<jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Did you know
- TriviaChosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2007 (#10, tied with "Ne touchez pas à la hache" and "Sang sattawat")
- Alternate versionsThe Malaysian Censorship Board banned the film for what is described as incidences shown in the film depicting the country "in a bad light" for cultural and ethical reasons. Tsai agreed to censor parts of the film according to the requirements of the Censorship Board, which allowed his shorter version to screen domestically.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021)
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Proud to differ
I am always a little surprised to see negative reviews of Tsai Ming-Liang films in web communities populated by film enthusiasts. And that's not because I'm about to argue that all film enthusiasts should like Tsai Ming-Liang movies, far from it. Rather, what surprises me is that film enthusiasts -- people motivated enough to have IMDb logins and, further, motivated enough to write reviews -- would be unfamiliar enough with Tsai Ming-Liang and his work, prior to viewing any particular film, that they could end up being surprised by what they get. Like all of Liang's films, this is a very, very, VERY quiet movie. That's the whole point: long takes, minimal dialog, you get out of it what you're prepared to concentrate hard enough on to see the subtlety of. I own all of his films and I watch them again and again -- and that doesn't make me a better person than the other reviewer, either. He's an acquired taste and if you don't like quiet, light-brush-stroke movies you won't like this guy's stuff. But I can't imagine anyone not knowing all of that before they start, and then complaining about it afterward.
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- Jun 24, 2007
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- Also known as
- Dark Circle
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $19,292
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,377
- May 13, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $226,026
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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