''Amphetamine'' () is a 2010

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starring

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and Thomas Price. It revolves around the story of an ethnic Chinese fitness trainer, Kafka, who meets Daniel, a business executive. The film is directed by acclaimed Hong Kong Chinese filmmaker Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It was nominated for a

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at the

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of 2010. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes. It is the third of seven publicly released films by Scud. The six other films are: '' City Without Baseball'' in 2008, ''

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'' in 2009, '' Love Actually... Sucks!'' in 2011, ''

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'' in 2013, '' Utopians'' in 2015 and ''

Thirty Years of Adonis ''Thirty Years of Adonis'' (), is a 2017 film by the Hong Kong film-maker Scud (filmmaker), Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It is a story of a young man who is a Beijing Opera actor. He decides to pursue acting, and ...

'' in 2017. The eighth film, ''Apostles'', was made in 2022, as was the ninth, ''Bodyshop'', but neither have yet been released. The tenth and final film, ''Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe'', is currently in production.

Plot

Set after the 2008 financial collapse, the story follows Kafka, a swimming instructor, when he meets Daniel, a wealthy investment banker who changes his life. Daniel is openly gay, and helps Kafka to come out of the closet, despite Kafka being Catholic and proclaims to be straight, and they quickly fall in love. Their relationship is complicated by Kafka's erratic behaviour, stemming from habitual abuse of amphetamine. Also a contributing factor is his impotence, which can be attributed to when he was violently gang-raped by three men, and sodomised with a wooden stick, after saving their original target, a woman. After the death of his mother, Kafka goes into a tailspin, raping Daniel's best friend, Linda, and flooding his and Daniel's apartment. When Daniel tries to console Linda, the two end up having sex, and Kafka sees them. The next morning, Daniel does amphetamine with Kafka, and Kafka confesses that despite everything he's done wrong, he still loves Daniel. Daniel affirms their relationship by asking Kafka to return to Australia with him, where they can get married, but Kafka asks for more time. At Daniel's going away party, Kafka is stripped totally naked, painted with silver body paint and calligraphy, and given large, white angel wings to wear (an image which is seen at the beginning of the film). He then jumps off of the balcony of the apartment, attempting to fly, but escapes mostly uninjured. When he wakes up and doesn't see Daniel, Kafka escapes from the hospital and looks for him on the bridge they visited on their first date. Distraught and hallucinating from detox, he jumps off the bridge, into the still-frozen water and dies, with his final thoughts being those of him and Daniel, together and swimming.

Cast

as Kafka * Tom Price as Daniel * Linda So as May *

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as Linda

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安非他命_(電影) Amphetamine (film)

VCD, DVD and Blu-ray

An uncut version of this ArtWalker film was internationally released on a Panorama (HK) VCD, DVD and on Blu-ray Disc on 24 September 2010.

Controversy

The level III-rated film met controversy in Hong Kong when the

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asked for several shots of anal intercourse to be cut before public screening. As the whole film had been allowed to screen as the closing film of the 34th

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, Scud protested against the authority's decision and complained to the Chief Executive

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. The shots in concern were finally blackened-out but with sound in public screening as a protest by Scud.

Films by the same director/producer

References

External links

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Chinese Movie Database – English version
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