The Runaway Pistol
directed by Lam Wah-chuen
Guns don't kill people, people kill people. But guns do make people trigger-happy, like power readily fills people with the urge to abuse it. First-time director Lam Wah-chuen looks through the eyes of a gun, telling different stories as different people get hold of the weapon. His is an ambitious work mirroring the fickleness of Hong Kong society where everyone seems to have a heart filled with anger, regret and unfulfilled dreams.
As the gun travels from the underbelly of Mongkok (Hong Kong) to seedy Shenzhen (China), it transforms or ends people's lives -- a sex worker, a small-time hood, a middle-class family, troubled teenagers, a suicidal fisherman, an illegal immigrant and innocent bystanders. Impulsive but honest, the film is a one-of-a-kind road movie and a fairytale about a city on the verge of a moral meltdown.
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