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Deadline  2025
自殺通告
Director:  Kiwi Chow
Producer:
  Kiwi Chow and Frankie Wang-Kit Chung
Screenplay:
  Kiwi Chow, Frankie Wang-Kit Chung and Felix Tsang Chun-Wing
Director of Photography:
  Danny Szeto Yat-lui
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Cast:
spacer1 Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
spacer1 Allison Lin
spacer1 Jimmy Liu
spacer1 Mimi Shao
spacer1 Bai Run-yin
spacer1 Michael Chang
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spacer1 Mimi Shao spacer1 Bai Run-yin spacer1 Michael Chang
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Synopsis:
At Enshan, an elite school where a nationwide AI surveillance initiative called iSmart tracks every student's performance and attendance, the arrival of an anonymous note threatening a student's suicide on exam day plunges the institution into crisis. Fearful of both the risk to students and damage to its reputation, the school races to identify the author before it's too late, in a dystopian, near-future thriller that uses its Orwellian setting to interrogate authority, obedience, rebellion and the human cost of an education system built on relentless pressure.
Review:
A visually ambitious, artistically bold dystopian thriller that offers a sharp critique of hyper-competitive education systems, even where its central mystery treads familiar ground for genre-savvy viewers.