A Very Short Life

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Movie: A Very Short Life
Chinese: 短暂的生命 (Duen chaam dik sung ming)
Director: Dennis Law
Writer: Dennis Law
Producer: Dennis Law
Cinematographer: Herman Yau
Release Date: March 19, 2006
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Language: Cantonese
Country: Hong Kong

Plot

Respectable Police Commissioner Josephine reinvestigates an insignificant murder case of a 11 years old girl. The murderer is the mother of the victim, Becky. Under intense interrogation, Becky refuses to admit that she knew all along that her boyfriend was raping her little daughter at home.

The harsh interrogation drives Becky into killing herself. What is the truth that the raging Commissioner is trying to find out? What is the seeemingly defenseless mother hiding? Or is she actually telling the truth?

Cast

Leila Tong - Becky Lee
Maggie Siu - Josephine Wong
Pinky Cheung - Cat
Samuel Pang - Jo
Koni Lui - Barbara
Sherman Tang - Ivy
Siu-Fai Cheung - Dennis Law
Wai-yan Cheung - Joey
Shiu Hung Hui
Yoyo Law - Ho Heiyi

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HK Neo Reviews Aug 06 2009 12:46 am All in all, A Very Short Life is easily Dennis Law most ambitious film and probably most disturbing (if you exclude his production credits in Gong Tau), but also most disappointing. The film stops when it shouldn’t, prolong when it should have been cut and the added presence of irrelevant characters, ultimately all added up to spoil the broth. Sometimes, if you want to push a subject matter, it is no point just to take a glimpse of it, but rather one should get to the bottom of it. It is disappointing that the film have its potential, the premises and the lead actors, but nothing really follow through. It is once again, the case of what could have been and the effect is leaving A Very Short Life, in the middle of the traffic, an average film at best, nothing more and nothing less … (Neo 2009)

I rate it 6/10

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