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The film is a good portrayal of the nature of news which is constructed reality that is heavily value loaded and carries subjective judgement. The story precisely depicts the minutiae of the cliché of the media industry in terms of news value, the editorial gate and market considerations as well as their impact and synergy on the outcome of news reporting. The roles of the media and the audience are well expounded in the dialogue of the Chief Editor, Tsang (Leung Ka-fai) in a later sequence of the movie: "The responsibilities of the news industry are to monitor, search and report but not to believe. It is the readers to believe."
The movie is shown under a highly restricted narrative. The sequences show a very high degree of story causality. The mise-en-scene is shown under a grey tone, giving a feel of misery. This atmosphere is further reinforced by the intensive use of slow moving up-to-down crane and lateral tracking shots as the establishing shots in a number of sequences. To enhance the artistic value of this product, director Chan obtrusively adopts filmic elements that are not typical in this genre of miserable murder: slow-pacing and languid non-diegetic music. There are not too much dialogues in the film and, in the presence of dialogues, the wordings are concisely meaningful in advancing the story. In both narrative and aesthetic aspects, the synergy among pacing (slow), colour tonality, mise-en-scene, music, vocals and cinematography forms a fulcrum of the predominant mantling of conspiracy in the diegesis, powerfully creating suspense and adding tension throughout the story.
The slow-pacing plot proceeds under a covert and suppressive narrative that makes the viewer continuously adjust his/her hypothesis throughout the screen time when new information are precipitated, bestowing on the viewer a good brain working exercise and amply propitiating the spectator who likes this genre. The ending does not completely transform the narrative from restricted to unrestricted as a multiplicity of gaps are not filled and the truth is not entirely revealed, which is reflective of the ontology of news and news reporting. Personnel in the media industry will find this movie more real than the news is.
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