Genre: Romance, Comedy
Starring: Miriam Yeung Chin-Wah, Eason Chan Yik-Shun
Release year: 2007
Language: Chinese - Cantonese
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
It is the summer of 1997. 27-year-old Miu starts working as a fishmonger at Prosperity Market to pay the heavy debts of her philandering father. She sets a 3-year plan for herself: before she turns 30, she shall clean her father's debts, leave the wet market, find a man worthy of her, and break the spell of her bad karma.
No sooner has she set foot on the market than she finds herself at loggerheads with Mr Fish in the neighboring stall. A fierce battle of survival is unleashed, only to turn into a mutual entente when the existence of Prosperity Market is jeopardized by the aggressive emergence of supermarket megastores. In the end, they fail to save the market. But their camaraderie has blossomed into a deeper feeling for each other, an unanticipated development Miu is not ready to embrace.
When her father suddenly dies of a heart attack and the government plans to demolish Prosperity Market, Miu decides to leave the market for good. Convinced that a new face will set her free from her smelly past, she enrolls in a makeup course funded by the government. As she embarks on her new life as a makeup artist, the world indeed becomes bigger, brighter, cleaner. However, she misses an important turn on the path of her life.
RATING: 8.75/10
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" ...However, that notion is a fantasy, and the film seems to quietly confirm that sentiment. People hope for things to remain unchanged, but life moves on with or without you. The film places weight on the past, but it also looks to the future hopefully. No matter what the outcome, there's good in both the past and the present, and missed chances can still be looked upon fondly. The bitterness here is noticeably sweet, a theme that is apparent in all relationships in the film: between people and Hong Kong, food hawkers and Fortune Market, and especially Miu and Fishman. The characters subtly change and grow, each maturing in their own way, and the actors sell the sentiments wonderfully. Miriam Yeung has matured far beyond her ditzy jade girls, and is able to convey emotion with sometimes just her eyes. Eason Chan may be even better; the actor manages to be both transparent and opaque at different times in the film, and never appears to be less than genuine. The situations in Hooked on You sometimes veer into cartoony, but the characters themselves possess real, felt personalities.
The film does have its issues. It possesses a witty and intelligent script, but some details end up feeling more cloying than appropriate. This is especially true towards the later portion of the film, when the film makes use of happenstance to suppose that these two star-crossed lovers will continue to criss-cross all over Hong Kong. The movie seems too smart for such obvious narrative tricks, and compounds the contrivance with its "return to Fortune Market" set piece. Still, the sequence shows us how the characters have grown, and despite its inherent cheesiness, the whole entertains in a gratefully satisfying fashion. Director Law Wing-Cheong, whose labored but effective 2 Become 1 was one of 2006's quiet bright spots, outdoes himself with Hooked on You. The film is an accomplishment not because it says anything profound or especially important (in fact, given its quiet coverage of the Handover, one could argue that it shouldn't even be called a Handover film), but because it manages to surprise, affect, and above all deliver. The film possesses complex emotions that seem deceptively simple, and gives us characters that are seemingly worth getting to know. In the end, Hooked on You asks us to look forward, and not back, and it's a message that the filmmakers earn. If Law Wing-Cheong can continue to make commercial films as satisfying as this one, then Hong Kong Cinema's future may indeed be brighter. "
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