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Cyclo (1995)
시클로
Also Known As: Xich lo
시클로
Also Known As: Xich lo
| Starring: | Le Van Loc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tran Nu Yen-Khe |
| Director: | Anh Hung Tran |
| Genre: | Drama, Crime |
| Production: | Les Productions Lazennec |
| Language: | Vietnamese |
| Country: | Vietnam |
About Cyclo
A young man who struggles through life by earning some money with his bicycle-taxi in Saigon (Ho-Chi-Min-City) gets contact to a group of criminals. They introduce him to the mafia-world of drugs and crime.
On first sight maybe just another nouveau-violence movie, but actually much more than that. It's about the coming of age of three characters: a riksja-rider, his sister and a poet/pimp/ganster. The innocent riksja rider is forced to join a gang, his sister transforms from water-carrier to some sort of geisha (somehow staying virgin), and the poet who "moves" them suffers from a mental crisis. All this against the decor of a busy, and quite noisy, Ho-Chi-Min City. Every now and then the story is put in a frame by seemingly uncorrelated shots of o.a. posing children. Fluids, like blood, paint and water, are present in almost every scene. Perhaps it was a (failed) attempt to soften the censors, but any western influence that shows up in the movie has a negative aura. And then there is the funny shot of a us-army helicopter that is carried by a low-loader through a busy crossing and that falls side-ways on the street.
- Arnold Koopman (arnold@cable.a2000.nl)
- Arnold Koopman (arnold@cable.a2000.nl)
