A poignant look at modern day youths in a world of confusion.
Set in the massive, crumbling urban developments in Hong Kong’s New Territories with a combination of trained actors and nonprofessionals, Spacked Out depicts a few tumultuous days in the lives of four schoolgirls, filled with desultory mall outings, classroom phone sex, and the occasional box-cutter brawl. A study of the everyday hope and despair experienced by Hong Kong’s dead-end kids that stands alongside Tsui Hark’s Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980) and Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong (1997), here focusing attention on young working-class women. – Metrograph
Week 1: October 3, 4, 5
Dir. Lawrence Ah Mon (2000); Hong Kong; Cantonese; 93 min
Programmed by Alyssa
Friday, October 3 at 6:00 PM & 8:30 PM
Saturday, October 4 at 6:00 PM & 8:30 PM
Sunday, October 5 at 3:00 PM