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San ren xing
Réalisation:
Kei-fung ToActeurs·trices:
Louis Koo, Wallace Chung Hon-leung, Timmy Hung, Vicki Zhao, Suet Lam, Hai-peng Lu, Eddie Cheung, Mimi Kung, Michael Tse, Raymond Wong (plus)Résumés(1)
Three is a medical action drama directed by the master of Hong Kong noir, Johnnie To. In a hospital ward, where life and death continually cross each other, the three protagonists have mingled feelings of fate. A neurosurgeon obsessed with obligation to save patients hides her feelings and pushes herself to extreme limits. A cop dares to break the law, believing that the culprit must be killed by fair means or foul to protect society. A suspect who becomes a patient mocks the order of the world, pledging himself to bloody revenge in spite of oncoming death. Their conflicted desires increasingly jeopardize the hospital. (Busan International Film Festival)
(plus)Critiques (1)
Johnnie To goes nuts on old knees with a green screen and digital cameras. The fact that the veteran filmmaker does not close himself off to new technologies is in itself praiseworthy, but the result is unfortunately only a self-serving technology demo that is reminiscent of Johnnie To’s long-ago creative brilliance only in flashes. Three can be described as the tenth infusion from his phenomenal PTU strained through a drama about medical ethics. The fact that, in its annual list, the Hong Kong daily SCMP ranked To’s new film in 11th place out of 52 Hong Kong films shown in cinemas this year confirms both the mediocre quality of domestic production and perhaps the desire of Hong Kong viewers to see films about cops who are already being chewed up by the systemic routine until they fully resign themselves to morality.
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