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Heroes in Love

ing Shya / Nicholas Tse / Stephen FUNG / GC Goo-Bi

Hong Kong, China2001 85min 35mm color

Synopsis

Heroes in Love is set in modern day Hong Kong and shows diverse ways of love of young people in episodes. The first part, directed by a designer and a photograher Wing Shya, is titled . The second is , directed by Nicholas Tse and Stephen Fung, two promising Hong Kong actors, and the third, deals with a more "normal" relationship compared to the former two episodes. The characters in are mostly alienated or do not communicate well. The audience will feel this strongly with the main character of the second episode, Robin, who is excessively attached to guns. Robin, a pizza deliveryman, loses his mind when finding a gun and cannot help himself with the desire to possess it. In Robin's behavior, the audience discovers problems in basic communication. Robin, who regards a gun as a lover and gives a funeral to a gun that has run out and fires a funeral salute, shows an extreme loneliness. Although different in manner the audience can find such characters in and , Joe in , who kidnaps a girl she is in love with to talk to her, and Charlene in , who cannot convey her feelings and thoughts 100% to a man she is in love with, are not different from Robin. Thus is a story about love as well as a story about us, who feel inside us the absence of communication and the uncertainty of it. (LIM Jisoo)

Diretor

ing Shya

Wing Shya is a designer and a photographer. He was the still photographer for < In the Mood for Love >, directed by Wong Kar-Wai

Nicholas Tse

Originally actors, they starred together in < Gen X Cops > 

Stephen FUNG

GC Goo-Bi

GC Goo-Bi is famous female DJ. Also starred in < Twelve Nights > (by Oi Wha Lam) as an actress