Accident (Standard Edition, Region Free) w/SLIP USED

Spine – 009

ACCIDENT

Soi Cheang 2009 Hong Kong 87 mins

We typically celebrate Hong Kong cinema for its wild, unrestrained action, but the uniqueness of Johnnie Tos Milkyway project is the way it increasingly searches for abstract qualities within the thriller. This reaches its apogee in Soi CheangsAccident. Drawing comparison with CoppolasThe Conversation, the story deals with an unconventional team of assassins led by Brain (Louis Koo) whose speciality is to stage-manage painstakingly complex hits so that they appear to be accidents. But a Brain will only get you so far, and as cracks open up in his oh-so-organised world, the hunter is forced into the position of the hunted, to question the extent to which events in the world are beyond his control, and to face the terrifying prospect that accidents might be mor