Film Evaluation of Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai

In this film, Xu Anhua recreates the real murder case in Tin Shui Wai, which caused a sensation in Hong Kong in 2004, with a calm and realistic style, and tends to keep the image and soundtrack to avoid the audience bringing too much emotion into the plot and characters. Xu Anhua didn't make Night and Fog into a film to satisfy curiosity and provide sensory stimulation.

The director did not blindly take the so-called "compassion" attitude as the keynote of the whole film. Xu Anhua boldly used a lot of flashbacks and interludes, and the film began with news reports of the Holocaust. When collecting evidence from relevant people, the police described the process of family destruction from different angles. At the same time, this is not the whole story of depression and despair. Instead, it uses the narration in the middle of the film to flash back the beautiful memories of the couple's acquaintance, love and first marriage, highlighting the ultimate tragedy of the whole story. In the final climax of the "Killing Gate", Xu Anhua also showed the whole killing process with special effects such as stop-frame photography, which really showed her imagination and creativity in such a serious theme of "domestic violence".

Among Hong Kong film directors, I'm afraid only Xu Anhua can pay such condescending attention to the living conditions of the bottom people in Hong Kong. "Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai" is a bloody accusation against common crimes and a film full of death. Full of killing and blood. An ethical tragedy exposed the helplessness of new immigrants, the incompetence of the government, the ignorance of social workers and the ruthlessness of the police, and also illuminated the desire of Hong Kong films to welcome realism.

(The above are comments from Life News, Chengdu Evening News and Bund Pictorial) This movie is really depressing (Southern Network Review). Yam Tat-wah's role in the film is extremely violent. All kinds of scenes are bloody. These shots have brought great anxiety to the audience (Southern Metropolis Daily Review).