Besieged City (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
Dubbed the “City of Sadness”, Hong Kong’s Tin Shui Wai became the subject of much local scrutiny in 2007 for its myriad socioeconomic problems and tragic fallouts. The city’s high rate of suicide, unemployment, domestic violence, and youth crime raised a red flag that exploded in the media after a series of headline-splashing suicides. Tin Shui Wai became the backdrop for two recent films, Ann Hui’s The Way We Are and Lawrence Lau’s Besieged City. Returning to the topic of problem youth which he covered in Gangs and Spacked Out, Lawrence Lau tells a devastating story of adolescents gone awry in a brutal urban landscape. Besieged City is harrowing in its portrayal of drug abuse, violence, teen motherhood, and rape, squarely and tragically addressing the crises in morality among today’s lost youth and the failures of the family unit and education system.
Numbed by the destitution that surrounds him everyday, Tin Shui Wai teen Ling (Tang Tak Po) just wants to mind his own business and get out of his present life and neighborhood as soon as possible. He can’t stay apathetic any longer though when cops show up to inform him that his runaway younger brother Jun (Wong Yat Ho) is lying comatose in the hospital and being charged with murder. To make matters worse, gangsters are demanding that Ling hand over a drug stash that Jun supposedly has. To find the drugs and the truth, Ling retraces the steps of his younger brother who ran away from home a while ago. Befriending a gang of troubled youth led by brassy teen mother Panadol (Wong Hau Yan), Jun enters a fast and fragile world of drugs, violence, and crime. At first, living fast comes as a liberation for Jun, but everything soon spins dangerously out of control..
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