A handful of rowdy teenagers are forced to deal with the responsibilities of maturity in this coming of age story from Hong Kong. Wing (Lam Yiu-sing) feels like an outsider when he enrolls at a new school in Hong Kong, but he's soon embraced by a group of friends who are more interested in good times than their studies. Wing and his buddies earn a well-deserved reputation as campus troublemakers -- they pick fights with their classmates, skip classes, smoke weed, sniff glue and try to pick up girls, with one going so far as to record a sexual encounter with his new girlfriend and post it on line for all his classmates to watch. However, the wild life Wing's friends are leading takes its toll, and when one of them ends up in the hospital, the boys are forced to pull together and face the consequences of their reckless lifestyle. High Noon was the first feature film from director Hei-yan Mak, who was just 24 when the picture was released; producer Eric Tsang previously used the same story for a very different Taiwanese film, Winds of September.
by Mark Deming
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