22 minutes of self-help hell that'll make you delete your vision board.
"This is a story of fall: of falling into traps and for lies and scams, of falling in love and falling out of love, and of falling for your own lies and falling back into the old ways, spectacularly. Michelle enrols in a self-help course in the hope that she will make her married lover come to his senses and treats her right. When the chanting of positive self-affirmations – Peace! Friendship! Love! – descends into uncontrollable screaming and wailing, will the newly converted be able to see things in a new light or will she wrapped herself up in the shining armour of self-victimisation to keep her from hurting?"
Acting
Janice Ting's descent from hopeful to unhinged is genuinely distressing.
Direction
Norris Wong crams a feature's worth of dread into 22 minutes.
Director
Norris Wong Yee-Lam
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hong Kong's self-help boom in the 2010s spawned real courses with similar cult-like dynamics, which Wong clearly researched.
The 22-minute runtime isn't just efficient — it mirrors how quickly these programs compress emotional breakthroughs into manufactured catharsis.
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