From The Queen To The Chief Executive DVD

Hong Kong Movie

Drama

 106 Minutes

Multi-Lingual

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等候董建華發落

Director: Herman Yau

Starring: Lee Sheung Man, Ai Jing, Tang Shu Wing

簡介：
《等候董建華發落》不論開拍前後，都引起極大爭
議，導演邱禮濤在電影中，細膩地描寫香港回歸後
，在監獄的青少年犯人的心情、經歷，引出他們是
否也應該享有人權等的問題。

A movie with a heart. A true gem among HK productions of the same genre. Miss it at your peril.

Youthful offenders get stuck behind bars for years in director Herman Yau's excellent, thought-provoking drama. A film not afraid to ask complicated questions lacking easy answers.

Beginning in 1997 with television footage of the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region being sworn into office, we next see an appeal being made to the Chief Executive. The story then swiftly backtracks to 1985. We follow three people whose lives will intersect 12 years later: Yue-ling, Mr. Leung, and Ming. Yue-ling is a teenage girl suffering from loneliness and abuse; Mr. Leung is helping factory workers protest unfair working conditions, and Ming is a teenage boy caught up in a horrific crime.

Fast-forward to early 1997, and we discover that Yue-ling has grown into a young woman fascinated by the prose of a young man who turns out to be a prisoner. That prisoner is Ming. He has been "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure," held for years without a sentence under a provision of Colonial rule that, it is explained, was meant to give youthful offenders a bit of a break, a chance to correct themselves. Instead, it has been used to keep a number of young men behind bars for an indefinite period, never knowing when or if they can expect to be released. Yue-ling is touched by Ming's story, and seeks out the help of Mr. Leung, now a Councillor whose term of office will end effective with the handover. The race with time is on. Will these young men ever get out of prison?

導演：邱禮濤
分級：IIB
片長：106分鐘

內容：
1985年5月，銘仔和一班不良少年在寶馬山道劫殺了一對外籍情侶而被補，但由於當時的他尚未成年，故需要等候英皇發落．銘仔在獄中已等了十年，一個平凡的女子譽玲，因為從文章中感受到銘仔的才華，所以漸漸對銘仔產生一種情感，遂與梁議員協助銘仔等犯人翻案，在最後一屆立法局完結束前希望能夠
為他們平反。

DVD: List Price: US $19.95

Sale Price: US$8.95

Language: Cantonese / Mandarin

Subtitle: English / Traditional Chinese / Simplified Chinese

All Regions (Can be played on any DVD player in the world)

Letter Box

Rating: IIB - "Adult Material; Parental Guidance Recommended" (roughly equal to an MPPA rating of "R") Films rated Category IIB contain large amounts of violence and/or nudity and sexual situations in addition to possible explicit language and adult situations.