The Doll Master

knightofdreamz · Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:21 pm 3 Extreme 2 : Going Home

3 Extreme 2: Going Home

Director: Peter Chan

Plot Summary :
Going Home is from the producer of all 'The Eye' movies (including the American remake), Peter Chan from Hong Kong weaves a story of kidnapping, death and love. Going Home tells the story of two men. The first man is a single father, Chan (a police officer) and his son Cheung have just moved into a new apartment. An apartment which will be torn down in about a month, everyone else in the building has moved out. The only other tenants are Yu and his wife, who is paralyzed from the waist down. Also there is a mysterious little girl who looks to be about 2 years old, we believe this to be the couple's daughter. One day Cheung goes missing, Chan works at night so he does not notice until later. After sleeping all day he goes searching for him. He believes that Yu has kidnapped his son and enters his apartment to investigate. The only thing he finds is Yu's wife dead in a bathtub. Yu has been waiting for her to wake up, afraid that Chan will tell what he has seen. Yu holds him captive because his wife will wake in three days and after that, everything will be fine.

Cast (Credited cast) :
Leon Lai ... Yu
Eric Tsang... Wai
Eugenia Yuan... Hai'er
Ting-Fung Li... Cheung

All Title(s):
3 Extremes II (International)
3 histoires de l'au-delà (France)
San geng (Hong Kong)
Three (Brazil)
Three Extremes 2 (Australia)

NotoriousMDK · Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:48 am

A surprisingly good little flick here. I mainly checked it out because I enjoyed Takashi Miike's fellow Three Extremes entry, The Box (which is also worth checking out) so much and I wanted to see if any of the surreal film making of that had carried over to this Chinese counterpart. While there is a fair amount of surreal imagery going on, mostly involving the mysterious young girl and the main character Chan's son, Cheung, it's no where the all-out acid trip that Box is.

The music is definitely one of the high points to the whole film. Seriously, it sounds like the kind of soundtrack reserved for high budget Hollywood drama and really makes the whole film seem a lot more "highbrow" than it probably is.

It wasn't what I was expecting at all, but that's actually a very good thing. It gets a definite recommendation from me.