Ngo joh ngan gin do gwai (2002)

Ngo joh ngan gin do gwai: Directed by Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai. With Sammi Cheng, Ching Wan Lau, Cherrie Ying, San-san Lee. A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.

“Here we have a high-school girl who volunteers sex services to fellow high-schoolers she doesnu0026#39;t even know. Sheu0026#39;s doing this from the very start of the movie, and we get little idea of why, except that sheu0026#39;s only recently transferred from another school in the same suburb (Herzliya, although IMDb lists the filming location as Tel Aviv) and she evidently feels embarrassed about living in a modest apartment building. We nothing more about her, and almost nothing about the boys except that one or two of them are rich and aside from one nerdy fat boy they apparently have no intention of offering her real friendship. Thereu0026#39;s the feeling that if the intent was to tell a stark story without investigating the charactersu0026#39; backgrounds and motivations, a much shorter film would have sufficed. In a long film, we expect a little more of the charactersu0026#39; surrounding environment and of their behavior in situations more than a few minutes removed from sexual contact. The lead actress won two awards for this movie, and she certainly had quite a job to handle given a script so underdeveloped.”