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Trivial Matters Review
2007-12-17 1:46AM / 標準BLOG / Asian Movie Review / 會員可以看
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Saturday night I had a last minute opportunity to attend another movie premiere. It was for Pang Ho-Cheung's new movie 'Trivial Matters' (破事兒).

It was an interesting film, I was a big fan of Pang's previous work ('You Shoot, I Shoot', 'AV', etc) so I knew that this one would be decent, but other than the fact that it has like a million different people in the cast, I didn't know what to expect.

Here's the trailer:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvqeidqEbt4

It turns out the film is actually a series of unassociated shorts (apparently 7, but I lost count), Each one starring a different set of actors. They range from the funny to the somewhat serious... a few just confusing, but mostly just funny of course.

If your Chinese is good, you can check out this preview video:

Some are rather short and some are longer, one of the longer ones is this one:

Gillian Chung and Stephy Tang, doing a retro 80's story of teenage friends (if nothing else I learned about Danny Chan (陳百強) from this short). This is definitely one of the more serious ones, but it had some funny moments too.

Watching Pang's previous movies, you should know he's not afraid to include some risque stuff in his movies, in the case of 'Trivial Matters', there's quite a LOT of sex... (obvious from that trailer too). Not all of them had sex, but some of them were pretty much JUST about sex... specifically Eason Chen's short with Isabel Chan:

I won't give it away, but its quite... Etchy. :-P

As you can see from the trailer, the other sexually charged one, starred Chapman To (who was also credited as the 'supervisor' for the film.. I guess that means he was like a producer or co-director?)

I liked this one the most I think, Chapman does a really good job, its a very minimalist and simplistic story, but its powerful at the same time. He plays himself in a (hopefully) fictionalized story... at one point he gets naked and his rear end is exposed on camera... it was quite funny listening to the crowd's reaction... especially since Chapman himself was there in the audience. :-P

A lot of the humor was somewhat HK-centric, but even as a non-local, I enjoyed it.

I'll give it a 6/10 as a whole.. where some of those are 2 or 3/10 and some are 8 or 9/10! ;-)

ps - some pictures from the premiere screening:

i think thats Isabel Chan on the left, and thats Chapman To and Pang Ho-Cheung at the start of the screening on the right.

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tinlunlau
留言於2007-12-20 10:12PM [举报]

the biggest problem with this movie is the fact that Jim Chim does not make any appearance.  this is a Pang Ho-Cheong movie tradition ever since "You Shoot, I Shoot" was made.  he has made an appearance in every film that Pang Ho-Cheong has made up to now.

Eason Chan's and Chan Fai-Yeung's segments were the best part of the movie.  lol!

on an added note, i want conroy's bong.  i'm an occasional pothead.  (christmas only, i don't smoke for the rest of the year)
Etchy
留言於2007-12-17 1:16PM

andy: its not as good as 'You Shoot, I Shoot', but its entertaining. Worth picking up in HK next time you are here.
GingerGeng
留言於2007-12-17 7:42AM [举报]

wooo.. *AV* jap porn!?~ lolz~ ok..not funny..~

anyways, i love Chapman in a movie with Leon Lai~( Moonlight In Tokyo) Directed by Alan Mak...~ It's a pretty gud one! if u haven't seen it~ u can give it a try~ = )
andy_lau_spain
留言於2007-12-17 5:24AM [举报]

wow, I am a fan of "You shoot, I shoot" I wanna watch this one, will look out for the dvd release ^^
Thanks for the review~~
Michael Chan
留言於2007-12-17 2:21AM [举报]

the eason chan was prob my fav in terms of pure comedic value. the gillian/stephy one did really remind me of secondary school... i was laughing so hard as i thought stephy really did a great impression of all the girls i knew back then. (except they weren't as good looking). the chapman to one is actually a bit similar to a particular story i've been thinking about writing... maybe a bit too close to home for some of my friends... haha.