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Diamond Hill

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Product Title: Diamond Hill 發光石頭 发光石头 Diamond Hill (VCD) Diamond Hill
Artist Name(s): Cheung Tat Ming | Power Chan | Carrie Ng | Ruco Chan 張達明 | 陳國邦 | 吳家麗 | 陳展鵬 张达明 | 陈国邦 | 吴家丽 | 陈展鹏 張達明（チョン・ダッミン） | 陳國邦（チャン・コッポン） | 呉家麗（キャリー・ン） | 陳展鵬（ベニー・チャン） Cheung Tat Ming | Power Chan | Carrie Ng | Ruco Chan
Release Date: 2000-12-01
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin
Subtitles: Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Disc Format(s): VCD
Publisher: Deltamac (HK)
Package Weight: 100 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1001801205

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主演︰吳家麗╱張達明╱陳國邦 Cast: Carrie Ng/ Cheung Fat Ming/ Chan Kwok Bong 導演︰鄭保瑞 Director: Cheng Bo Shui 　　鑽石山一段一段不為人知的故事…… 　　成長傷痛的回憶與事實　隔著床板的性幻想 　　鑽石山一定有鑽石？阿牛自小無家，所以愛偷看別人的 家，因此遇上在床底生活的阿海。阿海疼愛阿妹，由於父母 很早離世，小兄妹被福利署人員帶走。後來阿妹被一富裕家 庭收養，漸漸融入新家庭，而阿海卻仍然過著躲暱生活。一 天，阿海偷偷探望阿妹時，養母突然回家，情急之下阿海被 推到床底，並開始阿妹的床底生活。此後兄妹變得不尋常， 阿牛揭穿了這個秘密、改變他們一生……
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March 25, 2004
If ambition and good intentions counted for anything, Diamond Hill would be the best movie of 2000. With a cast consisting of Carrie Ng, Milkyway alums Maggie Poon (Spacked Out) and Hui Siu-hung, and comedian Cheung Tat-ming you won't find a movie with better actors doing better work than in this icy-fingered ghost story. Cheung Tat-ming does Oscar-worthy work, his home videos rivaling Takeshi Kaneshiro's Fallen Angels tapes for poignant laughs. Carrie Ng plays a mother whose daughter may as well be another country; when they interact, Ng wears the tense expression of someone trying to understand complicated instructions in a foreign language. Maggie Poon is Carrie's daughter, whose entire life is a dark, strange ride and whose whisper can send chills down your spine.

The first urban gothic from Hong Kong, Diamond Hill is made with all the technical precision of The Sixth Sense. Tremendously accomplished it spends so much time in flashbacks that eventually the present day seems more like a flash forward. The beauty of the film is its unexpectedness, and I would hate to ruin the experience for anyone so I'll limit my plot comments. In fact, I'll cut them out completely except to say that just when you figure out where this movie is going it cuts across lanes and veers off into the night leaving the image of Maggie Poon, legs pumping, racing down the middle of the nightime streets in her school uniform, imprinted on your retinas.

Upon its release, this movie barely made HK$7,000. Diamond Hill has its problems, so don't let my praise get your hopes up too high. It's ultimately a small movie, but it's about people who're defying logic, reason, biology, and every form of common sense to remake the world into somewhere they can live. That's certainly a taller order than Tokyo Raiders tried to fill.

by Grady Hendrix

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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10 (1)

Jason Shumate
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April 17, 2010
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 Good experimental type movie Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
First of all, it's worth noting that this VCD on Deltamac does indeed have English and Chinese subtitles. I know YesAsia tries to get the descriptions correct and warn you when something doesn't have English subtitles, but they are wrong here. Again - this VCD has ENGLISH subtitles. Warning - I'm not going to try to give away any significant plot moments, but I think I basically have to mention a few things that might venture into spoiler territory. I'll try not to be too specific, but if you are one of those people who doesn't want to know anything before you see the movie, you probably need to stop reading now.

This is a sort of experimental type movie. Everyone talks about the flashback scenes being shot in DV. Maybe it's just me, but with this being a VCD, it's really hard for me to tell any difference between the quality of the flashback scenes from the past and the present day scenes. The film is about a young brother and sister who are split up when the sister is adopted. However, they have their own plan of dealing with the situation as the movie eventually makes clear. The film is mostly about their relationship and what they have to do to stay in each other's lives.

I've read a few comments about how low budget the film was, it honestly doesn't really look all that much more low budget than any number of Hong Kong movies I've seen that were made in the 1980s or 1990s.

Now, here's the closest to a spoiler you're going to get. One of major story arcs is the girl (who is now a teenager) continually going to drug stores and 7-11 type shops to get home pregnancy tests. Based on this and a conversation she has with the presumed father of this unborn child, I think that a lot of people have jumped to the wrong conclusion. I would like to point out that every one of those pregnancy tests fails until the last one and she basically keeps taking them until she finally gets one that says she is pregnant. Ever heard of a false positive? And the supposed father seems to not really have any idea what she is talking about when we hear a conversation in which she discusses having children. I'd like to suggest the possibility that this "pregnancy" is all in her head and if I'm right maybe there is a subtle indication her of her mental state not being quite right.

All in all it's a little different from the usual HK fare and I liked it.
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