Ocean Flame (DVD) (Uncut Version) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region All
Liao Fan (Actor)
| Mo Xiao Qi (Actor)
| Simon Yam (Producer, Actor)
| Hai Yi Tian (Actor)
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Kevin Kennedy
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April 26, 2010
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Euro-style underworld romance
Euro-style underworld romance
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Viewers of "Ocean Flame" should understand what they are getting into; this is not your typical HK gangster fare. The filmmakers specifically set out to create a movie that would appeal to judges and audiences at film festivals in Europe and North America. As a result, "Ocean Flame" is violent arthouse fare, resembling the cruelly amoral anarchy of an old Gerard Depardieu/Patrick Dewaere vehicle like "Going Places". Fans of John Woo's or Johnnie To's films may find it slow-moving and uneventful, with nothing resembling 'heroic bloodshed'. Liao Fan stars as Wang Yao, who together with his longtime pal Zheng Zhong (Hai Yi Tian) and a couple of hookers pull a scam in which the girls lure affluent strangers to their hotel room, then Wang and Zheng enter and demand blackmail money. When Wang Yao strays into her restaurant, waitress Li Chuan (gorgeous Mo Xiao Qi) is both smitten and repulsed by the magnetic Wang. They soon develop an intense relationship in which both are drawn to each other like the proverbial moths to the flame, filled with dread and self-loathing. After the girls with whom Wang Yao usually works are arrested, Li Chuan is drawn into Wang Yao's scams, with all the tawdriness that task entails. When Li Chuan realizes that no matter how she abases herself to please Wang Yao, their relationship is headed nowhere, she turns to Zheng Zhong, who harbors an unspoken love for her and the triangular relationship becomes combustible. The nasty appeal of "Ocean Flame" lies in watching these self-destructive relationships simmer slowly until, inevitably, they overheat. The film is beautifully lensed in a style similar to the work of Christopher Doyle. Its incidental music is richly atmospheric. And, as Wang Yao, Liao Fan creates an astonishingly charismatic yet repugnant antihero. Be warned: The film includes some nudity and a few very unerotic sex scenes. It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I found "Ocean Flame" very compelling. |
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