Frozen is a new Hong Kong film, describing the life of a young girl who grows up not knowing her mother. And the comic event of meeting Mum and finding her real dad. It's a bizarre mix of love, finding your own family, and strange science. I googled Frozen and the story of three snowboarders stuck atop a sky lift on the day before a five day lay off sounded interesting. But Frozen at Festival Walk described a young woman growing up with her mum having been killed in an accident when giving birth some 20 years ago. her father, a scientist, cryogenically keeps his fiance young and alive. But the daughter [living with her step dad] discovers the real truth after her "step" dad dies and she accidentally opens the cryogenic casket and Mum comes back to life after 20 years. The story is a bizarre mix of lost love, reverence for the disco days of the 1980s, bad clothes and haircuts, it also has some fairly standard music by the main lead actor.
But it was a good introduction to the the movie business of Hong Kong.
I also learnt that a young woman kept in a cryogenic state for 20 years, when she lapses gets some form of cryogenic retina, which causes them to turn a fluorescent disco blue. You should see the French film, Disco, directed by Fabien Onteniente, for a better take on the 1980s and disco dancing.
I also took photos of two young couples, one in Kowloon station and another in Festival Walk [a monolithic mall in Kowloon Tong]. The first couple for the t-shirt extolling the virtues of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's ideas of a Black Swan, an idea on economic theory and the concept that theories can't cope with the single event that the economists and financial strategists can not foresee. Events such as the 200 global financial crisis, or the development of hysterical prizes for tulips in 16th century Holland. Or a hung parliament in Australian 21st century.
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