The Accident (1999)
Reviewed by: ryan on 1999-11-21
Summary: Accident, The (1999)
You may not know who is LEE Chi-chiu, that's why when you see the poster of 'The Accident', you can see the credit with 'produced by Stanley KWAN Kam-pang'. When looking at the lobby cards and the cinematography, the first feeling is something like Stanley KWAN last year's 'Hold You Tight', which means that it's about the stories between men and women.

The English official title 'The Accident' is the main cause of the story, a delay of a train to Hong Kong which changes the fate of 6 guys in 3 pairs, Gigi LAI and TZE Yin, Almen WONG and LIN Hoi as well as WONG Hey and Ben NG Ngai-cheung. Gigi LAI and LIN Hoi are paired but LIN cannot get back to Hong Kong due to train delay. This results Gigi LAI being left by her friends and she finally met pilot TZE Yin. On the other side, while LIN finds a hotel for a night, Almen WONG, as a popular star, is filming her dirty movie while LIN finally becomes the actor of the movie. At the same time, illegal immgrant WONG Hey was seeking for money but finally he gets a boy friend Ben NG Ngai-cheung who is a taxi driver.

In terms of the movie, it seems that all the things are happened within one night while director Julian LEE wanted to present that all changes in a sudden. By doing so, he tried to make lots of surprise among audience. However, to audience, it seems that they prefer something more traditional and typical for presentation. For example, the love scene between Almen WONG and LIN Hoi are expected to be erotic while the movie presents in a very mile and soft way. Audience seeking for a sexy Almen may get disappointed.

For the love between Gigi LAI Chi and TZE Yin, it seems that the presentation is okay. TZE has a relative large age gap with Gigi and his way of presentation makes audience laugh in theatres. For Gigi LAI, I consider they would like to present a Gigi who is too lonely and misfortune. I consider her way of presentation is too deep for audience to fully understand.

In terms of editing, the method for 'The Accident' is to cut by similiarity. It means that when one line is presenting with the same feeling as the other, it switches. This method is good for keeping tones. On the other hand, it may be hard in joining the three stories if you are not concentrated in the first part which presents the relativeship of the six main characters in the movie. Whethere you like the movie or not is quite dependent on whether you like the editing of the movie or not.

I consider the best part of the movie is the relationship between WONG Hey and NG Ngai-cheung. One of the reasons is due to a relative larger elaboration on the background of NG while gives the relationship between him and WONG Hey more impressive. HOwever, I consider the most attractive part should be the love scene between these two men in taxi. The presentation is good while can satisfy audience.

On the whole, 'The Accident' is a movie about misfortune and sudden which happens to the six characters in one day and a night. The performance of NG Ngai-cheung and WONG Hey is good. Whether you like the movie or not depends on whether you can accept the editing of the movie while is cut by tones.