Re-cycle
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 The Singaporean Re-cycle poster. |
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| Directed by | The Pang Brothers |
| Written by | The Pang Brothers Cub Chin Sam Lung |
| Starring | Angelica Lee Lawrence Chou Siu-Ming Lau Rain Li |
| Distributed by | Matching Motion Pictures Universe Entertainment |
| Release date(s) |  July 1, 2006 July 6, 2006 July 14, 2006 |
| Running time | 108 min. |
| Country | Hong Kong/Thailand |
| Language | Mandarin/Cantonese |
| Budget | 200 million baht [1] |
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Re-cycle (Cantonese: Gwai wik) is a 2006 horror film directed by the Pang Brothers and starring Angelica Lee. The film was the closing film in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. It was also a reunion for Pangs and the actress Lee, who starred in the Pang's 2002 hit, The Eye. It is a Hong Kong/Thai co-production.
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[edit] Plot
Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. She hasn't even started on the book yet and her agent has already announced that the next title, The Recycle, will deal with the supernatural.
After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes the file from her computer.
She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable things and finds that she is experiencing the supernatural events that she described in her novel-to-be.
[edit] Cast
- Angelica Lee as Ting-yin/Chu Xun
- Lawrence Chou as Abby
- Siu-Ming Lau
- Rain Li
- Jetrin Wattanasin
[edit] Controversy
Ting-yin finds herself in a parallel universe where abandoned things end up, including aborted fetuses, leading some critics to believe the film carried an anti-abortion message. "That just happens to be one of the topics in the movie. We are not out to say if abortion is right or wrong," Oxide Pang said in one interview. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Cited by film's distributor during a press conference on September 15, 2006 in Bangkok.
- ^ Tan, Jeanine (July 6, 2006), "It's a horror film, not a crusade", Channel NewsAsia.
[edit] External links
- Gwai wik at the Internet Movie Database
- Re-cycle at Rotten Tomatoes
- Re-cycle at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival
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