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Simon Liu’s eerie, entrancing portrait of contemporary Hong Kong tracks a series of strange disruptions to the city’s urban infrastructure. Deceptively tranquil 16mm images of everyday life are accompanied by muffled music cues, ominous radio transmissions, and intimations of an impending hazardous event that may never arrive.

2020 年万圣节，杰西和雅各布·华纳在网络上直播时失踪。这就是那次直播。

宁静的房间内，阳光普照的角落里，汤姆懒洋洋地从睡梦中醒来。他慵懒地趴在窝的旁边，用手边的绳子拉来另一头拴着的小老鼠杰瑞，使唤这个可怜的小家伙为他准备睡后的饮食，期间杰瑞还不得不为其拍后背按摩。懒惰的汤姆，俨然过着帝王一般的生活。就在此时，送货的车来到家门口。汤姆还幻想着这是主人买来的美食，谁知却是一只可爱温良的小猫咪。面对这个不速之客，汤姆自然感受到潜在的威胁，为此他想方设法要赶走小猫，甚至不惜使用各种恶毒的办法除掉对方。另一方面，感受到汤姆恶意的杰瑞路见不平，拔刀相助，要好好保护小猫的安全……

The Kinema Junpo critics were, of course, mistaken to think that Naruse had abandoned his emphasis on women. His next film, Sincerity, features two strong female characters, played by Irie Takako and Murase Sachiko, each of whom have a daughter. The girls are schoolmates, but one (Nobuko) is from a middle-class home and the other (Tomiko) is from a poor family. Tomiko's mother Tsutako (Irie) is a single mother who works from home as a seamstress, while Nobuko's mother lives in an elegant home with her husband, Kei. Eventually, it is revealed that Kei had a romantic relationship with Tsutako, and may be Tomiko's father as well, but he is conscripted shortly after this revelation and goes off to war.This is very much a home front film, in which the women are involved in supporting activities, and the whole town cheers on the new recruits. As Kei is a banker, he is conscripted as an officer. He is introduced brandishing a magnificent sword, indicating his readiness for his call-up, for which everyone congratulates him when it comes. The wartime context is little more than a backdrop to the story of paternity and former love. The complex emotions among the women are conveyed through cutting on eye movements and eye lines, and through the use of the pastoral location.