Fall

Wong Yee-lam

2013 / Col / Fiction / HD / 22’ 00” / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

Best Script, Open Division, Fresh Wave InternationWal Short Film Festival, Hong Kong

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 enrolls 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 amour of self-victimization to keep her from hurting?