Office drones, a ticket, and torture — Hong Kong's most unhinged lottery fever dream.
Young office employees and a gay delivery boy who wants to be a dancer, all desirous of leaving their day jobs, pitch in money and number selection on a lottery ticket. Bing, who has a severe stutter, is sent to get the ticket, and refuses to supply it. His co-workers, all staying late at night to finish a proposal for their manager, Gloria, torture him in order to make him supply the ticket, even attempting to get him to sign an insurance policy before they kill him. All the while, they try to avoid getting caught by Gloria, who expects them to be working.
Acting
Emotion Cheung's committed stutter performance.
Direction
Sun Lam's single-location pressure-cooker staging.
Writing
Insurance policy before murder — dark comic logic.
Director
Sun Lam Tat-Wai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Six is Hong Kong's state lottery, making this a uniquely local desperation fantasy.
Gloria Yip shares her character's name — probably not a coincidence given the director.
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