BobaFett Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 One of the best local film IMO. Go and watch it! Synopsis : 4:30 traces the relationship between Zhang Xiao Wu, an eleven year old Chinese Boy, and his tenant Jung, a thirty-something Korean man. Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, Xiao Wu, this story of two very different characters is less about friendship than about a shared experience and appreciation of solitude. 4:30 starts with Xiao Wu sneaking to the room of Jung in the early hours of the morning, and stealing from the Korean man. Just as getting intoxicated is a habit for Jung, who only staggers back to his rented room when drunk, soon stealing for Xiao Wu becomes equally as compulsive. We soon realise that Jung’s true intention for staying in Singapore is suicide. It is only through Xiao Wu’s encounter with Jung failing in his bid to die that Xiao Wu begins to understand his true fascination with Jung. Ultimately, 4:30, as the title suggests is about a moment, a boy’s attempt to cling to it escaping his drab reality, in a life yet fully lived. Yet it too opens us to the possibility that in this age of the urban, of the tall apartment blocks, of the cityscape, that the loneliness that a city-dweller feels not only transcends cultural and geographic boundaries but that it is also not inevitable.
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