When Geek Meets Serial Killer

A curiously captivating movie title, and interestingly, an old friend's directorial debut. So, I took an effort to watch it, curious to see what and how he has made this movie. By the 5th minute, I already wanted to feedback to him that it was brilliantly told. 

It's a movie that is considered daring for a conservative Chinese society. Refreshing black humour, choreographed and executed so well by a director yet unseen in the Chinese world of movie making. 

It starts off with a comic artist who lands the fantasy of a lifetime when 5 sexy maids turns up at his apartment. Then he wakes up --  to a blood-strewn apartment with a dead person lying in front of him.

The story is told in first person narration, each character's psyche expressed clearly to the audience scene by scene, and the storyline of each character was cleverly interlinked with flashbacks, and kept me going "oh....so that's what was going on..." Ne'er a dull moment.

As a producer and director, and intending to write and make my own movie soon, I have always liked intercutting to flashbacks to tell the story instead of telling an entire story the linear way. But it is not easy to write, plan, shoot, and edit this way and still keep your audience clued to what's going on. 

The CGI just makes you laugh at the humour of what really goes on in our minds. Each shot and talent positioning was choreographed to tell a particular satire; the script and the entire message of the movie was a cynical hit at the farce of a hypocritical society.