Movie Summary [15]

Title:  15

Release Date: 2003

Language: Mandarin, Hokkien (and English in some places)

 

English Subs: Yes

Cast:

Vynn Soh – Vynn

Melvin Chan – Melvin

Erick – Erick

Shaun Tan – Shaun

Melvin Lee – Armani

Well..they all play themselves ahah love it

 

Basic Plot Summary:

This semi documentary film shows the lives of five 15 year old juvenile boys in Singapore.

They live their lives apart from their family and school in complete social isolation, having only each other. The film show the reality of gang life in Singapore.

 

My thoughts:

 

*~WARNING!!!~*

 May contain Spoilers!!!

And by ‘May’ I mean does!!! 

Wow….this movie is intense. So intense….
It took me a while to work out which characters were which, but I eventually got it.

Okay just a few things:
The movie isnt exactly what I would call a Boys Love Movie, in fact….its not really 
Its only here because shows the closeness between the boys and it was recommended to me 🙂

Quote: ” even though there is heavy homoerotic tension between the characters, Royston Tan (the director) says that the boys whose lives he portrayed do not identify as gay.”

This movie does show a lot of shocking images, (It is rated 18 so….yeah ) such as self harming, moderate violence and drug trafficking. Most of these images are graphic, so just to warn you!

I think the character that I liked the most was Shaun. he was pretty cool. His dad was a total ass though, even though we only saw his arm….
Vynn was alright too.
I didnt like Armani, he was a bit …much

Just to say I don’t really want to get into a whole thing, i know that this film was created to give an accurate description on gang life in Singapore and I believe the ‘characters’ are real people and I believe this film to be only semi documentary semi drama.
(but I don’t know this for sure)

Its a very intense movie!!!! I know I’ve said that before!

This might be a bit far, but it reminded me of the movie “Requiem for a Dream” because it shows the things that no one really wants to talk about or even acknowledge, such as drug use, violence and prostitution.

This type of film really isn’t my cup of tea. I like films which touch on serious topics but gang related films just…I don’t like it.

For BL quality only
*even though this isnt a bl movie….*
2/10

Screen Caps:

 

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