Rosebud/UK Premier
Kit Hui/ Hong Kong, USA 2009/ 89 min/ tbc/ Cantonese with English subtitles
Fog has all the promise and ingredients for a fabulous atmospheric movie – memory loss, tragedy, heartbreak, Bruce Lee t-shirts, the shiny lights of Hong Kong – within the first couple of minutes Director, Kit Hui has you in the palm of his hand. Amnesia, yes great subject, and if I had the chance again would I make all the same choices, if I could make my friends again would I choose the same ones? Emotive and powerful stuff. But Fog is a film that rather like this review where nothing really happens. Wai (Terence Yin) desperately tries to remember his past. He remembers nothing. His friends and family, where he’s been, what he’s done. Although luckily he does remember he smokes. And smokes quite heavily at that. In fact product placement along. In fact you can’t help but wonder if the title Fog is more to do with the amount of cigarettes smoked on screen rather than the fogginess of his mind. So we’re as much in the dark as he is and that’s where we’re staying. There’s a lot of wandering around and saying nothing. In fact there’s enough strong silent types in this films that makes you think, maybe there’s no need for subtitles. There’s no information and no real story sadly. He can’t remember anything. We don’t really know why or how this amnesia came about or maybe it’s just a setup for the sequel – in Fog II they’ll tell us everything …and just why he’s wearing that Bruce Lee t-shirt. Sadly, so little happens in Fog by the time the credits roll you’ve forgotten why you actually came in in the first place.
Showing @ Cineworld 17th June 20:00 and 20th June 15:15
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