John Woo's experimental short film, made during his time in college. The line between genuine love and violent obsession is blurred when a man falls for a girl and proceeds to tie her up with rope to him, making her follow him around and bend to his whims until tragedy ultimately befalls them both.
Direction
Woo's early visual language—tension through proximity and restraint.
Production
DIY filmmaking that predicts his later operatic violence.
Director
John Woo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This student film prefigures Woo's entire career: balletic violence, doomed male relationships, and the romanticization of self-destruction.
Woo shot this at Hong Kong's Chung Chi College before dropping out to work at Shaw Brothers—making this technically his only starring role.
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