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The Glass City (2014)
Directed by Wong Hin Lik
Romance · 30m
Yee-tou cannot recover from her sorrow at her fiancé’s death. Her admirer Heem with a quiet and introverted character is kind enough to take care of her. Deeply depressed, she resists taking her medication and suffers from frequent hallucinations. Eventually she kills herself in front of Heem, who is consequently infected by her depression, and keeps a tank of goldfishes at home. From a glass fish tank to our world, are we living in a true world or is life an illusion? “The Glass City” is a love story with sad sentiments mentioning the limitations in life as if goldfishes living in a glass tank.
Cast
Jane Wong Pui-yi
Aaron Chow
Crew
- Director
- Wong Hin Lik
- Writer
- Wong Hin Lik
- Director of Photography
- Lin Wai Ting
- Editor
- Wong Hin Lik, Tang Yuen Ying
- Producer
- Lau Tsz Ho
Details
- Original title
- 玻璃城
- Release date
- 2014-12-10
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Romance
- Original language
- CN
- Spoken languages
- Cantonese
- Countries
- Hong Kong
- Production
- Fresh Wave, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, The Open University of Hong Kong