End Of Love

 Review: DVD

Film: End Of Love
Release date: 7th June 2010
Certificate: 18
Running time: 97 mins
Director: Simon Chung
Starring: Chi-Kin Lee, Ben Yeung, Clifton Kwang, Guthrie Yip
Genre: Drama
Studio: Network
Format: DVD
Country: China

Like his 2005 debut The Innocent, the second feature by young Hong Kong director Simon Chung offers up another tale of a gay man and his rite of passage. 

A tale of love,loyalty,betrayal and revenge. A Bittersweet Life offers a critically acclaimed and award-winning insight into South Korea's underworld.Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by Kang, a cold and calculating crime boss to whom he is unquestionably loyal.A tale of love,loyalty,betrayal and revenge. A Bittersweet Life offers a critically acclaimed and award-winning insight into South Korea's underworld.Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by Kang, a cold and calculating crime boss to whom he is unquestionably loyal.

A tale of love,loyalty,betrayal and revenge. A Bittersweet Life offers a critically acclaimed and award-winning insight into South Korea's underworld.Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by Kang, a cold and calculating crime boss to whom he is unquestionably loyal.A tale of love,loyalty,betrayal and revenge. A Bittersweet Life offers a critically acclaimed and award-winning insight into South Korea's underworld.Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by Kang, a cold and calculating crime boss to whom he is unquestionably loyal.

A tale of love,loyalty,betrayal and revenge. A Bittersweet Life offers a critically acclaimed and award-winning insight into South Korea's underworld.Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by Kang, a cold and calculating crime boss to whom he is unquestionably loyal.A tale of love,loyalty,betrayal and revenge. A Bittersweet Life offers a critically acclaimed and award-winning insight into South Korea's underworld.Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by Kang, a cold and calculating crime boss to whom he is unquestionably loyal.

This film is really is a good example of how liberal intentions to treat the subject of homosexuality naturalistically and ‘seriously’ most often result in bathos and earnest tedium, and conversely the importance of camp and irony in the creation of dramatic and dynamic ‘Queer Cinema’ - as the vivid filmmaking of Fassbinder, Jarman, Almodovar and others have proved. JC