by Hal Erickson
synopsis
The Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production Dark Night zeroes in on Sue Ming-Ming, playing a bored housewife. Seeking escape from her go-nowhere marriage, the woman inaugurates an affair with her husband's best friend. She has no doubt that things will turn out badly, but figures that she can't be any worse off than she already is. UCLA alumnus Fred Tan was the auteur behind the sexually superheated Dark Night. The film was based on a best-selling novel by Taiwanese author Sue Li-Eng.
characteristics
- Infidelity
- Love-triangle
- Sex
- Housewife
- Homemaker
- Adultery
- Boredom
- Extramarital-affair
- Adulterer
