Melvin Chen – Heroic Cinema https://www.heroic-cinema.com The guide to Asian movies in Australia Fri, 20 May 2011 09:23:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 18894642 15 (2003) https://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/15-2003/ Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:23:24 +0000 http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/15-2003/ The general impression of Singapore is of an over-bearing, authoritarian city-state, whose citizens sacrafice certain civil liberties in return for an efficient and spotless metropolis

Like Hero, minor sacrafices for the greater good.

Unlike Hero, there is no nobility or glory in being an unwilling sacrifice.

15 is a film about being amongst those sacrifices. The juveniles unable or unwilling to fit in and be productive members of society are the central protagonists, operating in pairs, occasionally with … (read more)

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