智齒/ Limbo (2021) dir, Soi Cheang ★★★★

Review by Fernando Figueroa

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I’ve always said that being where you shouldn’t be can cause your luck to change radically sooner or later, as in the life of the ordinary thief in this story. In other words, the chance crossing of paths between two complete strangers gives rise to stories like this one. Cham Lau’s wife, the detective, is run over by the aforementioned street girl who was fleeing in a stolen car, and thus a double question arises for each of them; namely, an ethical dilemma for Cham, the policeman, whether or not he should kill the thief who has put his wife in a coma or use her as a suburban informant to discover the murderer who cuts off his victims’ left hands, or a double moral dilemma for the thief, whether she should hide and fear the officer’s vengeful wrath, after all, she is a fugitive, or whether she should help him with his investigations even if it puts her in danger, in order to make her punishment less unbearable when she sees his wife in hospital.

It was not a good idea to handcuff the thief after she served as an informant in the underworld when she was being hunted down to be lynched for being a snitch, and it was an even worse idea to handcuff her to a car at the whim of the hand-cutting killer. This is a thriller that gradually becomes more chilling as the girl tries to escape from the killer after being kidnapped and raped by him. The film’s unusual ending could not be more honest with the plot line and, moreover, unexpected, just as fortuitous as the beginning.

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