Love Unto Waste starring Chow Yun Fat

Director: Stanley Kwan

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A chic-surfaced Hong Kong art movie about wasted youth, a sort of Crown Colony Less Than Zero. A group of spoiled Beautiful People (models, aspiring actresses, the languid young heir to a rice fortune) interact randomly until one of them--a Taiwanese woman who clings to her peasant origins--becomes the victim of a bloody murder. At which point, enter Chow Yun-fat, as a Columbo-esque rumpled police inspector, and we're back to HK movie business as usual. (Sigh of relief here.) An eye-opening sequence (designed to show that the veneer of urban civilization is a sorry sham) has the victim-to-be cooking her mother's yummy peasant specialty, Pig Stomach Chicken. The survivors undertake a pilgrimage to their late friend's hometown in rural Taiwan toward the end, demonstrating their own shallowness in the process; an effective if not terribly subtle sequence. This 1988 film marked the big-screen debut of one of Hong Kong's premiere art movie directors, Stanley Kwan. He went on to better things, including Rouge and Centre Stage.

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