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低俗電影節


幾似泰國人妖騷

......No-one predicted what has actually happened, which is that HK has reinvented itself as a massive shopping mall for wealthy tourists from the Mainland. This has kept the economy buoyant and the property bubble well inflated, but it has also turned what was once East Asia's most user-friendly city into a high-stress place in which the everyday interests of the many are routinely sacrificed to the power-broking of the few. In other words, HK has become more like a Mainland city than vice versa.

.....The packed house at the premiere(in the Cultural Centre!) went ape-shit, creased up by the gags, amazed by the non-stop obscenity and ecstatic at the defiant Cantoneseness of it all. It may be too culture-specific to travel far, but Vulgarity is a minor classic.

Vulgarity in HK
Tony Rayns
Sight and sound
2012 June

當我們談論特區和特區電影節﹐除了低俗低俗和低俗﹐奇景奇景和奇景﹐搶飛搶飛和搶飛﹐搵笨搵笨和搵笨﹐李焯桃李焯桃和李焯桃﹐其實也沒有什麼好講。

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