High Noon (movie)
烈日當空- User score: 6
- Production country: Hong Kong
- Producer: Heiward Mak Hei-Yan
- Production companies: Black & White Films Ltd., Big Pictures Ltd., See Corporation Limited
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Release date: 11/8/2008
- Run time: 100 min.
Movie description
The Hong Kong chapter of Eric Tsang's "Growing-up Trilogy" bears testimony to the saying: "The kindness of the gods is manifested in allowing young people to embark on life unprepared." Heiward Mak, the 23-year-old director whom people in the inner circle repute to be the next shining star of Hong Kong cinema, crafts a string of vignettes about seven young people about to sit for a major public exam. Clever, humorous, angry and dangerous, this is the Cruel Stories of Youth for the Me Generation of this century of globalization and mediocrity
