RIFLE RANGE BOY

The Goldfinger (Cantonese; 2023) Director: Felix Chong This film excited me for three reasons. First, the screenplay was written by the same guy who wrote the smash series Infernal Affairs, which later spurred Martin Scorsese's The Departed. Second, my favourite Cantonese stars, Andy Lau and Tony Leong, are in it. Finally, a Malaysian angle is somehow intertwined in the whole imbroglio. The movie is based on the rise and fall of the Singaporean (Sarawak-born) rag-to-riches speculator George Tan and his Carrian group of businesses. One July morning in 1983, Malaysians were shocked to read about a banker's body that was found in a banana plantation in the New Territory of Hong Kong (HK). From the 10-sen Malaysian coin that was found in the pants pocket, the police managed to determine that he could be Malaysian. They finally discovered that he was Jalil Ibrahim , a Malaysian auditor sent from the Bank Bumiputra Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to look into some discrepancies in loans...

Managed to warp through Hong Kong (the sweet smelling harbour in Cantonese) in less than a day. It is a city that is pretty confused. On one hand, you have its citizens dressed to the nines with the latest winter collection keeping up with the latest trends set in New York, Paris and Milan with furs and boots, on the other hand, they do not fit into a typical metropolitan citizen category with language being their handicap. Even magazines are bilingual trying to write on something quite Continental like making a new cocktail. You have yuppies (young urban professionals) waiting in line to barge into Louis Vuitton and Cartier flagship stores to lay their hands on the trendiest merchandise, and you also have the boat people and their humble what can hardly be called an abode in Aberdeen area! And everyone is working till late trying to make lots of money. And they try to sell the trades and tours which are nothing more than flashing of the fetishism of capitalism and the evil past of ...