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<p>1 revision</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Image:430.jpg|250px|thumb]]<br /> <br /> ==User Rating==<br /> {{#w4grb_rate:}}<br /> <br /> ==Profile==<br /> * '''Movie:''' 4:30<br /> * '''Director:''' [[Royston Tan]]<br /> * '''Writer:''' [[Royston Tan]]<br /> * '''Producer:''' Gary Goh, James Toh<br /> * '''Cinematographer:'''<br /> * '''Release Date:''' June 29, 2006<br /> * '''Runtime:''' 93 min.<br /> * '''Language:''' Mandarin, English, Korean<br /> * '''Country:''' Singapore<br /> <br /> ==Plot==<br /> Xiao Wu's existence revolves around school, an empty apartment and the dubious comforts in instant noodles. One day, his routine is subtly transformed by a tenant in the apartment, who is nursing a heartache. Their paths cross only once and a while. Longing for human contact Xiao Wu tries all he can to make a connection through physical and metaphorical walls in that hour between night and day.<br /> <br /> ==Director's Statement==<br /> A meditation on absence and longing, 4:30 is about a moment, and a boy’s<br /> attempt to cling to it, escaping his drab reality. 4:30 traces the relationship<br /> between Zhang Xiao Wu and his tenant Jung, a thirty-something Korean<br /> man. Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, this story of two very<br /> different characters is less about friendship than about a shared experience<br /> and appreciation of solitude.<br /> <br /> 4:30 was conceived while I was filming my first feature 15. I was doing a lot<br /> of late night shoots and would normally still be up at 4:30 am. I realised that<br /> this is a very lonely time of the day, in fact I think probably the loneliest. It<br /> feels too late to go to sleep yet at the same time, too late to be<br /> awake. I’ve heard a rumour that the suicide rate at this time is<br /> apparently the highest.<br /> <br /> The premise of 4:30 is built around 2 lonely people who share and probably find a kind of unspoken<br /> connection through their loneliness. The reason for using a Korean character was in part, a way of<br /> thanking the people at Pusan especially the Pusan International Film Festival for their<br /> tremendous support for many of my short films over the last few years.<br /> <br /> It was also my intention to show that loneliness is universal and cross – cultural hence there is<br /> very little dialogue in the film 4:30. Emotions of the characters are told through their body<br /> language like their eyes and facial expressions, or subtle cues of their hands. This perhaps also opens more doors to interpretation for the audience as well. -- Royston Tan<br /> <br /> ==Cast==<br /> * [[Young-jun Kim (II)|Yong-jun Kim]] - Jung<br /> * [[Xiao Li Yuan]] - Zhang, Xiao Wu<br /> <br /> ==Trailer==<br /> &lt;youtube v=&quot;pj4_uEm-ZHs&quot; /&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ==Comments==<br /> <br /> &lt;wp:comments&gt;<br /> wp_post_title=4:30<br /> wp_url=http://asianwiki.com/commentsdirectory/<br /> &lt;/wp:comments&gt; <br /> {{UpdateBox}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Singaporean films]]<br /> [[Category:2005 Singaporean films]]<br /> [[Category:films]]<br /> [[Category:2005 films]]<br /> [[Category:Arthouse films]]<br /> [[Category:2005 Arthouse films]]<br /> [[Category:Singaporean Arthouse films]]</div>

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