2011/07/09

我是貓 The Cat of Hollywood (2004)


*第9屆韓國崟山國際電影節"新潮流導演"競賽*
*台灣鬼魅影展"閉幕電影"*
*第1屆香港亞洲電影節*
*香港國際電影節"神秘放映"*


*The 9th Pusan International Film Festival "New Current" in competition.*
*2004 Taiwan Phantom Film Festival "Closing Film"*
*1st Hong Kong Asia Film Festival*
*Hong Kong International Film Festival "Mystic Show"*

電影片段 Movie Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXopDyqyx_c

監製:林震宇
編劇/導演:林震宇
主演:黎國輝、朱倩儀、鄭煥美、葉運強、陳自瑤、黃翠儀
HK/2004/Color/DV/90min

故事:香港中環荷李活道,是酒吧林立慾望之地,是眾多流浪貓棲息之所。
中年男上司「陳先生」,神秘地從樓梯滾下跌死事件,是意外嗎?
年青修路工人「阿修」在案發現場附近工作,受到流浪貓的感召,已過去的人和事,彷彿迴轉重生。
山城上的百級樓梯,是血案現場,是夢魘開端,是情色陷阱。
色情男女醉生夢死,流浪貓兒睥睨眾生。
情迷錯亂、顛倒逆轉、永劫回歸──
一切發生的事情,原來都跟荷李活道貓人傳說有關。


導演的話:



2003年的香港,發生了很多令人感到害怕的事:超級偶像自殺、沙士病毒殺人、經濟環境惡劣、失業問題惡化、政府施政失誤,最終令50萬名市民,在71日走到街頭,表達不滿。
香港人面對滿天陰霾,千頭萬緒。
《我是貓》就是透過一個神秘的貓人寓言,去反映、記錄2003年活在香港的心情。
1997年後,香港似乎再沒有什麼東西值得別人關注。
香港,其實有苦自己知。
我花掉約7千美元製作費,找來一班經驗豐富的劇場演員,捧著數碼攝錄機,走到既是我居住的地方,也是香港心藏──中環取景。
我選擇以荷李活道為故事發生現場,因為荷李活道是香港第一條被命名的街道,是香港第一間戲院落成的地方,是國際著名的古董大街。
荷李活道是神秘的,不可言喻的。這裡既是酒吧林立的慾望之地,亦是眾多流浪貓棲息之所。
更重要的是,這裡隱沒在聲色犬馬的蘭桂芳和蘇豪區之間,代表著一種繁華社會背後的荒涼,喧鬧背後的寂靜。
如果2003年香港的不幸,是令人可怕的話,我希望,荷李活道的流浪貓,可以給我們帶來一點什麼的啟示。
貓女,是永恒的慾望投射對象,愈美麗的東西,愈是危險。源源不絕的欲望:權力、愛惡、生死、情色,如幽靈般暗暗地向你招手。
我上一部影片《人造色素》(2002),淡淡地回應了美國911恐怖事件下,都市男女的絕望愛情故事;今次《我是貓》,則以一宗迷離詭異的死亡事件,配合奇幻的電腦特技,大寫特寫一場有關無知、荒謬、痛苦、非比尋常的生死愛慾夢魘。
──活在香港,就像在看一齣驚慄片。


Producer: Pierre Lam
Screenplay & Director: Pierre Lam
Starring: Plato Lai, Phoebe Chu, Anna Cheung, Yo Yo Chen, Jason Yip, Tweety Wong
HK/2004/Color/DV/90min


Story: Hollywood Road, a luscious location filled with alluring pubs and everything that tempts the senses, is at the same time the home to many stray cats.

A man at his middle age found dead on the stairs, can such mysterious incidence purely accidental?

While working close by the death spot, a young construction worker was called by the stray cats, flashing him back into the scenes that mirror the past.

The Cat of Hollywood is a story happened on the city stairs in the mid-level. This is stairs where death took place, nightmares began and desire was trapped.

Look into the world of intense obsession through the eyes of the strayed.  See the passion, chaos, and eternal tragedy – all linked to the mysterious Hollywood Road Cat Woman.


Director's Statement:



2003 was a spine-chilling year for Hong Kong. Super idol committed suicide; SARS tortured the entire city; economy continued to stay gloomy and with the catalytic faults performed by the Government, 500,000 Hong Kong citizens expressed their grievances in the streets on July 1, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day.

Depression, threat and worry are the best answers to how life is like in Hong Kong last year.

The Cat of Hollywood reflects and documents the feel of living in Hong Kong in 2003, through a mysterious fable of a cat woman.
It seems there has been nothing about Hong Kong that deserves the world’s attention since 1997.

In fact, we all have something to tell.

I worked around an US$7,000 budget, invited a great line up of theatrical performers, picked up a digital video camera and get the set going in Central – the place where I live, the heart of Hong Kong.

Hollywood Road, with its enticing background, is chosen to be the stage on which the story takes place – it is the first officially named street, it is the home to Hong Kong’s first cinema and now, it is an internationally-known street featuring oriental antiques.

The mysterious beauty of Hollywood Road is beyond words. Chic bars and stray cats are all housed here. What’s more interesting is, Hollywood Road is a quiet backdrop to the indulgent Soho/Lan Kwai Fong district and thus it represents the ice-cold solitude sitting behind the red-hot prosperity; while its quietness creates sharp contrast with the party sounds just a few blocks behind.
Seeing those misfortune happened to Hong Kong in 2003, I wish, the stray cats living in Hollywood Street are able to bring us some inspiration.

Cat woman, a gorgeous subject to symbolize eternal desire, the more beautiful it is, the more dangerous. Desire is endless, be it power, love and hate, life and death or human passion. Our minds are constantly lured by these dark spirits.

My last film Fall in Love too Easily (2002) softly reacted to the 911 terrorist attack by telling a despairing love story in a city; now with The Cat of Hollywood, through a mysterious murder and magical computer-generated effects, I have a nightmarish tale that zooms into the innocence, absurdity, pain and rarity of a threatening death-and-passion story.

Life in Hong Kong is a thriller experience.









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