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Audio Format: DD 5.1, DD 2.0 Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 Languages: Mandarin Subtitles: English, Spanish, French Region Code: 1 Year Made: 2005 Running Time: 89
 Neither documentary nor fiction, Royston Tan's feature-length version of an earlier, award-winning short is a gritty, disturbing portrait of Singapore's forgotten youth. The film follows five teenage hoodlums as they go about their daily lives, which involve gangs, drugs, smuggling, violence, and lots of body modifications. The film is shot in a fast-paced, non-linear style that highlights the immediacy of the action, making it all the more unpalatable and difficult to watch.
The desperation of the delinquents is immeasurable and captured beautifully (Tan has faced many accusations of exploitation), with stark emotions expressed by actors in situations similar to those of their characters. Their nihilism is explicit, as one boy searches for the perfect location for suicide, and another inflicts wounds on himself in an attempt to expunge the pain and frustration he has already seen in his short life.
The adventure of five fifteen year old boys in Singapore: estranged to every social reference, except for that of appearance and close friendships, they live their lives distant from their families and school, passing their days in a complete state of indolence in the search of experiences, at times even physically painful (tattoos, piercing, wounds).
Their imaginary is completely colonized by MTV, cartoons, electronic jingles, publicity and comics as every moment of their existence depicts a audiovisual performance or label.
Interpreted by street-kids that belong to the group they represent, this audacious and disturbing first work by the twenty-six year old Royston Tan explores an adolescent world, dramatically marked by the conflictual under-culture and complete addiction to video clip and videogame aesthetics. The existential suburban hardship, compared to the bright "western" and "English speaking" metropolis, is consumed through moving and desperate dialogues inscribed in a progression of disturbing sequences, similar to short sketches that slowly reconstruct the relational, psychological and family dynamics of the five boys. A sincere and lyrical film but at the same time irreverent, scandalous and extreme, an expression of Singapore cinema, unknown and emerging.
Special Features:
- Deleted Scene
- Scene Selections
- Coming Attractions
- North American trailer
- Original trailer from Singapore
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