| Release Date: May 27, 2017 |
Synopsis và Plot Summary
Kang Qiao (Huang Zi Tao) is a 19-year-old boy who is every girl's school crush. He is athletic, handsome and an all-around prefect guy. However, he is inwardly troubled và he doesn't play well with others. One day, he begins to lớn have a change in outlook after observing a blissful family from his hospital window, yet he is shocked to come across a scene where it looks like the daughter (Yang Cai Yu) has killed her own father. The next evening, he notices the daughter near the hospital grounds and he wonders whether she has come khổng lồ dispose of the body. His curiosity gets the best of him & the more he finds out, the more he realizes that he may be in love.
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 | Huang Zitao as Kang Qiao |
 | Ora Yang Caiyu as Xia Yingying |
 | Du Tianhao as Zhao Yi |
 | Vivien Li Meng as Zhu Li |
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Fri, 6 Oct 2017Reviews
Crime, Drama, Du Tianhao, Feng Cuifan, Huang Zitao, Li Dongquan, Li Jiaying, Li Meng, Shimada Soji, Stanley Fung, Steve Lawes, Terdsak Janpan, Wenders Li, Yang Caiyu, Yang Gil-yeong, Zhang Rongji, Zhu Zhiyingsinocinema
Edge of Innocence
夏天十九岁的肖像
China, 2017, colour, 2.35:1, 102 mins.
Director: Zhang Rongji 张荣吉.
Rating: 6/10.
Blend of crime mystery and obsessive love doesn’t deliver after an atmospheric first half.
Yuehai city, southern China, 10 years ago. Nineteen-year-old Kang Qiao (Huang Zitao) has moved down from the northeast to lớn attend university but spends his time carousing on his motorbike, as he feels it’s his last sunmmer before adulthood. One day he has a crash, breaks a leg & ends up in hospital. In the next bed is a talkative old patient, Jiang (Feng Cuifan), who likes teasing their nurse Zhou Min (Zhu Zhiying). The only ones who know Kang Qiao is in hospital are his close friends – Zhu Li (Li Meng), a medical student whose father is hospital director, và Zhao Yi, who appears to have a secret liking for Zhu Li. Zhu Li takes great care of Kang Qiao but he treats her as just a friend. One day, while gazing out of the window, he sees a beautiful young woman (Yang Caiyu) in the house opposite and becomes obsessed by her, borrowing a small telescope from Zhao Yi. She appears lớn live with her wealthy parents (Zhang Guozhu, Ke Shuqin); Kang Qiao also sees the waiter (Mo Ziyu) from the nearby coffee house hanging around outside. One night Kang Qiao sees the young woman stab her father và then clean up the blood with her mother. Next day the carpet is sent for cleaning, and at night the daughter và mother bury a bag in the building site next door. Kang Qiao starts receiving text messages from someone with the avatar Xiaobai who seems khổng lồ know everything that’s going on but will not reveal his/her identity. Kang Qiao questions the coffee-house waiter – whom he’d previously seen making love khổng lồ his nurse one night in the hospital – but only learns he’s a friend of the family và their name is Xia. Kang Qiao hears from his nurse that he’s being moved to another room, from which he won’t be able to lớn observe the house opposite; in protest, he discharges himself. In his flat he finds an anonymous note warning him khổng lồ keep quiet about what he saw. After his leg has healed, he manages to lớn gain entrance to lớn the house, và explores the room of the young woman, whose name is Xia Yingying; he later follows her khổng lồ work at a market-research company, Xinrui Group. After applying for a job as a street canvasser for the company, he finally talks khổng lồ her and later invites her out for dinner. Immediately he receives a text message from Xiaobai, congratulating him on dating a murderess.
REVIEW
Despite an impressive first half that lays out its stall in a low-key, atmospheric way, Edge of Innocence 夏天十九岁的肖像 doesn’t live up khổng lồ expectations. A murder mystery wrapped up in a tale of obsessive love, this third feature by Taiwan director Zhang Rongji 张荣吉 combines elements of his first two films – the attraction between two opposites in Touch of the Light 逆光飞翔 (2012) và the murder-solving investigation in Partners in Crime 共犯 (2014) – but doesn’t địa chỉ any further depth. On balance, Partners is still Zhang’s best feature to lớn date, though Innocence is still worth a look for its performances, especially by 24-year-old Mainland actor-singer Huang Zitao 黄子韬 (formerly with the group EXO) who, after a strong performance in Shanghai gangster movie The trò chơi Changer 游戏规则 (2017), puts to rest his epicene image as a boybander.
As Kang Qiao, a restless young student who’s hospitalised with a broken leg và spies a young woman involved in a murder across the road, Huang is reined back (as in the later scenes of Game Changer) without being dull and moody, adequately conveying the 19-year-old’s curiosity that soon turns into a double obsession – to meet the mystery beauty herself & find out what happened that night. During the first half hour, when he’s confined to lớn the hospital room, using a small telescope to lớn spy on her, Huang is well supported by a small ensemble of Mainland actress Li Meng 李梦 (so good in Young Love Lost 少年巴比伦, 2015) as a med student who fancies him, Hong Kong veteran Feng Cuifan 冯淬帆
If it all sounds a little lượt thích the Taiwan crime drama Zoom Hunting 猎艳 (2010), it doesn’t develop in a similar vein. When Kang Qiao leaves the hospital & finally meets the woman of his dreams, the movie becomes quite conventional, driven dramatically only by the question of who is spying on him and sending him taunting text messages (one of his friends? the coffee-shop waiter? the nurse?). The central relationship, between Kang Qiao & his dream woman, isn’t written with any special feeling nor played by Huang & Bangkok-born thai Chinese actress Yang Caiyu 杨采钰, 25, with any notable chemistry (shades here of Yang’s previous outing, Love in the 1980s 1980年代的爱情, 2015). When the film returns to lớn the crime story khổng lồ tie up all the loose ends, it can’t recapture the simmering atmosphere of the opening half-hour, và the several Big Reveals (including the identity of the anonymous texter) carry little clout.
The film is based on an early novel, 夏、19岁の肖像 (literally, “Summer, Portrait of a Nineteen-Year-Old”, 1985) by prolific mystery writer Shimada Soji 岛田庄司 (of The Tokyo Zodiac Murders 占星术杀人事件 fame), few of whose writings have been adapted for the big screen, even in his native Japan. The script by Taiwan’s Li Jiaying 李佳颖, who recently co-wrote another Japanese crime adaptation, The Devotion of Suspect X 嫌疑人X的献身 (2017), as well as the Mainland-set The Left Ear 左耳 (2015), works only in short bursts after the opening section and, unlike Partners in Crime, lacks the architecture khổng lồ sustain a sense of mystery or dread. Notably, her handling of the final section comes close khổng lồ melodrama.
The most interesting aspect of the film is actually its provenance. Though 100% Mainland-funded, and with a story that’s phối somewhere in the Mainland (the fictional southern city of Yuehai, by the sea), it looks & feels lượt thích a Taiwan movie, from its visual choices (coffee shops, motorbikes etc) to lớn its generally “small” feel and naive romanticism. Hardly surprising, given the whole film was actually shot in Taiwan (Taibei and Gaoxiong), as well as written và directed by Taiwanese. Beyond that, however, & the Greater đài loan trung quốc cast, it smoothly integrates a truly international crew: Welsh d.p. Steve Lawes (who shot some episodes of the UK TV series Sherlock, and evokes the same sense of heightened reality here), bầu composer Terdsak Janpan, South Korean action director Yang Gil-yeong 양길동 | 梁吉泳, and Hong Kong editor Li Dongquan 李栋全
The film’s Chinese title means the same as the Japanese novel’s. Mainland box office was a lame RMB9 million. Zhang also worked on Mayday 3DNA 五月天 追梦 (2011) but only co-directed (and shot) the band’s concert scenes, not the fictional episodes.
CREDITS
Presented by Desen International media (Tianjin) (CN), Horgos Desen Pictures (CN), Desen International truyền thông (Beijing) (CN).
Script: Li Jiaying. Novel: Shimada Soji. Photography: Steve Lawes. Editing: Li Dongquan
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Cast: Huang Zitao (Kang Qiao), Yang Caiyu (Xia Yingying/Zhang Yingying), Du Tianhao (Zhao Yi), Li Meng (Zhu Li), Zhang Guozhu (Xia Kun), Ke Shuqin (Xia Yingying’s mother), Feng Cuifan