Year: 1996
Duration: 01:21:16
Directed by: John Hau
Actors: Pauline Chan, Catherine Hung Yan, Ka Tung Lam, Carrie Ng
Language: Cantonese (English subs)
Country: Hong Kong
Also known as: Di ba zong zui, Dai baat jung jui
Description: Gordon Lam kills a guy who raped his sister. When he gets out of jail he runs into a girl in trouble and they fall in love but she has to go back to USA soon. She is somehow related to a gangster. His best friend has a debt to this gangster. The gangster wants another gangster – who is together with his former girlfriend – killed. Starring Pauline Chan who also played in the film Dumplings
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It is interesting to note that Pauline Chan committed suicide at a relatively young age. I have come to the conclusion that perhaps being an actor is actually quite a dangerous job after all, since an actor’s mind is always susceptible to what I term ‘being messed up’ by the characters that they have to portray. In my opinion, acting, even though it is fake and not real, does have a very real effect on a person’s mental well-being. I am curious if any major studies have looked into this. Anyway, I remember reading in one particular film review here(I can’t remember the title) by the WIP admin, that the actors of one particularly demanding director, have to go for psychological treatment after filming, because their minds were ‘messed up’ by the demands of the character portrayal. Besides Pauline Chan, other notable actors whom I personally believe were mentally affected by the tragic characters that they had to portray in film, include Hong Kong actor Leslie Cheung(in particular, the film ‘Peking Opera Blues’), and Korean actress Lee Eun-joo(in particular, the film ‘The Scarlet Letter’). I am not sure if there is anyone else out there besides me, who thinks that portraying tragic characters in film does affect an actor’s mind in real life?