Stanley NG's video: Dead Knot 1969

導演：石琪 (黃志強) / 吳宇森 編劇：吳宇森 演員：吳宇森、曹仲蘭 1968年，19歲的吳宇森拍攝了實驗電影《死結》。由他當時好友、日後著名影評人石琪（黃志強）執導。該片僅16分鐘，全片黑白。故事中有兩名男子，赤裸上身，一個用鞭打另一個背部，捱打者面露笑容，拾鞭者又用更溫柔地撫摸捱打者的傷痕，全片充滿少年的詩意與狂想，而吳宇森則全裸出演。 吳後來回憶說當時選擇同性戀的題材，是為表達對社會的憤怒，以及人在困境中的惶惑，因此片子同時具有溫柔與暴力兩種特質。 Director: Wong Chi-Keung, John Woo Screenwriter: John Woo, Wong Chi-Keung Cast: John Woo, Tso Chung-Lan, Chan Kai-Yat Rescued by the Hong Kong Film Archive, this is the earliest surviving trace of John Woo's beginnings as an indie film-maker. A psycho-drama in the vein of Anger's Fireworks, it's divided into eight short chapters. A young man (Woo) tries to escape from a gay sado-masochist relationship into a 'normal' relationship - with a girl! - but ends up back where he started, unable to buck his deepest desires. Whatever light this may shed on Woo's later work, it's fascinating for teasing out the subtext from the perverse swordplay bloodbaths which Chang Cheh was making at the time (Golden Swallow, etc). Co-director Wong is now better known as Sek Kei, a leading film critic. The HKFA print is a 35mm blow-up from a damaged 16mm original.