Amphetamine
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Two men who've become lovers struggle with issues in one another's lives in this drama from writer and director Chud (born Danny Cheng). Kafka (Byron Pang) is a gifted martial artist who also works as a personal trainer and a delivery courier, needing a steady income to care for his ailing mother and her medical treatments. Kafka has just ended a long-term relationship with his girlfriend May (Linda So) and is feeling out of sorts when he meets David (Thomas Price), a financier who moved to Hong Kong after the Wall Street collapse of 2008 in hopes of starting his life over again. David, who is gay, is clearly attracted to Kafka, and after ardently pursuing the handsome athlete Kafka is seduced by David. While both David and Kafka are looking for a relationship, David discovers his new lover has more issues than he expected; Kafka is not accustomed to being in a same sex relationship and he's living with a drug problem. Meanwhile, David has to contend with Linda (Winnie Leung), a woman he was briefly involved with who wants to reconnect with him. Amphetamine was an official selection at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, RoviCredit
Scud - Director| Amoureuse (1992 Film), Amour-Legende (2006 Film) | |
| Amphibians: The Alpine Newt (1999 Film), Amphibians: The Common Toad & the Natterjack Toad (1999 Film) |
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Amphetamine (film)
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| Directed by | Scud |
| Produced by | Scud Lawrence Ah Mon (executive) |
| Written by | Scud |
| Starring | Byron Pang Koon Kei Thomas Price Linda So Winnie Leung |
| Music by | Shan Ho Yat-Yiu Yu |
| Cinematography | Charlie Lam |
| Editing by | Heiward Mak |
| Studio | ArtWalker Productions |
| Distributed by | Golden Scene |
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| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country |  Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
Amphetamine (Chinese: 安非他命; Jyutping: on1 fei1 taa1 ming6) is a 2010 Hong Kong film starring Byron Pang and Thomas Price. It revolves around the story of a Chinese fitness trainer, Kafka, who meets Daniel, a business executive. The film is directed by acclaimed Hong Kong Chinese film-maker Scud, the stage name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It was nominated for a Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival of 2010. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and is one of four such films by Scud. The three others are: City Without Baseball, released in 2008, Permanent Residence in 2009, and his most recent, Love Actually... Sucks!, in 2011.
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Plot
Kafka is straight while Daniel happens to be gay. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference in sexuality and Kafka's drug-taking. Daniel does not regret his love for Kafka, who tries to love him back against his nature. But a flashback memory from Kafka's past makes it difficult for their relationship to work. It turns out that their addiction to love proves more fatal than the drugs they use to explore the boundaries of their friendship.
The film stars Hong Kong Chinese actor and former model Byron Pang (Cantonese: Pang Koon-Kei), who was a runner-up contestant for Mr. Hong Kong in 2005, and Thomas Price, a half Chinese-half British actor who appeared in Permanent Residence and City Without Baseball. Like Scud's previous films, Permanent Residence (made in 2009) and the earlier City Without Baseball (2008), Amphetamine features full-frontal male nudity in many scenes, in among others, an outdoor fight scene in which Pang is stripped naked by other boys, gym showers, and a leap from a public building, in which Pang wears 'wings', and his whole body is covered in calligraphy and silver paint.
Amphetamine examines the limit of passion, and is the second of a trilogy: the first, called Permanent Residence, examines the limit of life, while the third, known as Life of an Artist, examines the limits of art. Amphetamine was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival on 15 February 2010, and was also shown at the Hong Kong International Film Festival on its final day (6 April 2010). The third film has not yet been released.
Cast
- Byron Pang as Kafka
- Thomas Price as Daniel
- Linda So as May
- Winnie Leung as Linda
- Eva Lo as Eva
Production Company
- ArtWalker Productions
VCD, DVD & Blu-ray
An uncut version of this ArtWalker film was internationally released on a Panorama (HK) VCD, DVD and on Blu-ray Disc on 24 September 2010.
Controversy
The level III-rated film met controversy in Hong Kong when the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority asked for several shots of anal intercourse to be cut before public screening. As the whole film had been allowed to screen as the closing film of the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival,[1] Scud protested against the authority's decision and complained to the Chief Executive Donald Tsang.[2] The shots in concern were finally blackened-out but with sound in public screening as a protest by Scud.[3]
Films by the same director/producer
- City Without Baseball (2008)
- Permanent Residence (2009)
- Love Actually... Sucks! (2011)
See also
References
- ^ Closing Films, The 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival
- ^ 謝凱瑩 (31 March 2010). "《安非他命》導演函特首 求「完整」公映 雞姦內容被刪 轟電檢雙重標準 [Director of Amphetamine wrote to the Chief Executive to request full public screening]" (in Chinese). Mingpao. http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100330/4/h9zp.html.
- ^ "《安非他命》雞姦戲變「黑畫面」准上映 [Amphetamine anal intercourse shots are changed to blackout for public screening]" (in Chinese). Mingpao. 1 April 2010. http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100331/4/hav8.html.
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