CIN240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Totalitarianism, Johnnie To, Romantic Hero
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Triad***chinese organized crime syndicate, 14k based in hong kong. One of many voices in the 90s that were all saying this. At this point in time, in hong kong, it was handed back to mainland china (1989) china had been known as totalitarian throughout the 80s. The film industry was then changed by the process of transformation influenced by historical, political, and geographic factors and responding to the approaching 1997 handover. Crisis ridden apocalyptic scenarios in the years living up to this event. So, they tended to focus on things that the director felt were in danger of being lost. An uneasy combo of past, present, and future. Crisis brought out in the tension between past and present, transcendence and reality, real vs. unreal in motion, death and rebirth, brutal violence and choreographed ballets. Better tomorrow (random twins showing up after death) also hard boiled. Johnny to"s (director replacement for woo in the genre, loved in europe, films play at.
