School on Fire
Director: Ringo Lam
1998 / 101min / DCP
When a well-behaved Hong Kong high schooler (Fennie Yuen) witnesses an episode of triad gang violence and agrees to testify concerning what she’s seen, she finds herself in the crosshairs of vengeful sleaze “Brother Smart” (Roy Cheung), her only hope for salvation coming in the form of not-yet-entirely-inhuman teen hoodlum “Scar” (Terrence Fok). While hardly an endorsement of organized crime, Lam’s portrayal of the Hong Kong school system—and the pitiless adult world it ill-prepares its students to face—suggests that gangsterism begins in the classroom. The solution he offers to this state of affairs, as ever: Burn the m.f. down!
Distributor: AGFA
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