塚愛 In Love With the Dead

I recently watched this HK horror/love movie which I think is quite good. Try to get a DVD and I am sure you would not be disappointed:-

In Love With the Dead

"傳說中有些人因心事未了，就算是死了仍會在人間行走一段時間，更有些人連自己死了也不知……”

This is another one of those recent Hong Kong's sleeper movies by famous horror films director Danny Pang (彭発) which is of fairly high standard but did not really make it big in the box office. It is a rather slow love / horror themed movie about inner and outer ghosts with a great twist at the end.

The movie as might be expected for a film dealing with terminal illness , “In Love With the Dead” is a pretty gloomy affair as the director plays atmosphere strike the perfect combination of eerie lighting and moody music. The story is about the leading lady is diagnosed with cancer, her loving boyfriend (Shawn Yue - Infernal Affairs 2) swears to take care of her. Inevitably, this proves to be a difficult task, not least since she soon starts acting very strangely, lurking around in their dark flat all day. Disturbed and depressed, Ming falls into the arms of attractive co-worker Fong , resulting in even more angst. Living with Ming and Wai is her younger sister Ping, who one day remarks that the poor woman looks like a ghost from the horror comics she loves reading. From then on, things take a turn for the sinister, as Ming begins to suspect that she may well be right. The ending is quite sad.

The movie also comes with a fascinating sub- theme regarding the clash between modern Western-style and traditional Chinese medicine. In one scene the leading lady follows what the "how to beat cancer" book by eating back all the yukkies stuff that she has just vomited out. According to the book, by doing that her cancer will get cured. then in another scene, she practices a kind of Qigong called Bau Chew Qong (embracing the ball) which I also learnt from my former Qigong class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvPMITo9y_s