Simon Says, Simon Says

Jun 19, 2022

0h 30m

★ 5.0

Overview

Amid changing times, as friends and relatives are leaving the city one after the other, our once familiar neighbourhood is becoming foreign. Yeung Por Por has her luggage packed for the one-way flight out of the city with her son. During her final hours in Hong Kong, she goes to the Wan Chai seaside and is shocked to find a barricaded construction site. Following Rhea, her domestic helper to the latter’s Filipino community, Yeung Por Por realises what it means to be uprooted from one’s homeland. Subtly and wistfully, the film relates the difficulties and dilemmas of migration, closing with ‘You Said We’d Be Back’ by the folk-rock duo My Little Airport.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Fresh Wave

Hong Kong Arts Development Council

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Cast

Yeung Por Por

Brenda Chan Kwai-Fan

Tsang Fung

Kwok Siu Kit

Rhea

Siti Fatimah

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