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| Poster Filem Weeds on Fire |
Filem Weeds On Fire adalah filem sukan [sport films] yang berteraskan sukan baseball. Berlatarkan tahun 1984, pasukan kerdil yang dibina sebagai pasukan baseball remaja pertama Hong Kong dengan gelaran Shatin Martins. Pasukan ini transform dari satu pasukan kerdil hingga ke perlawanan akhir kejohanan dan bakal menentang pasukan besar dari jepun, The Japanese Buffaloes.
Kalau filem sukan, elemen paling penting bagi tuan pengarah adalah untuk capture semangat untuk berjuang setiap mereka yang terlibat. Tak kisah betapa bombastiknya effects yang dipertontonkan, tetapi kalau semangat perjuangan itu tiada, maka tidak berjayalah filem tersebut. Tengok dari trailer filem Weeds On Fire, aku rasa semangat perjuangan itu memang menjadi elemen penting filem ini. Jom tengok trailer kat bawah;
'Winning or losing, it all lies in this step'
Filem Weeds on Fire adalah sebuah filem arahan dan tulisan Chi Fat Chan. Filem ini akan berdurasi selama 95 minit dan di inspirasikan dari kisah benar berkenaan pasukan baseball remaja pertama Hong Kong.
Sinopsis Filem Weeds On Fire [dalam bahasa english]
Middle school Principal Lo (Liu Kai-chi) petitions the local school board to form a baseball team for his mid-tier students, though why is never quite clear. Despite being sure these kids are more likely to bash each other rather than balls with the gear, the board agrees and the Shatin Martins are born. The team’s pitcher-catcher duo is made up of childhood friends Tse Chi-lung (Lam Yiu-sing) behind the plate and Fan Chun-wai (Wu Tsz-tung) on the mound.
The boys are largely opposites — Lung is retiring and lacking confidence, Wai is brash and cocky — but they become the heart of the team that seems hopeless. Lung in particular takes to the game and also takes pride in his accomplishments, however meager. As the Martins start to gel as a unit, Lung and Wai deal with personal issues that force them into altered worldviews (family collapse, unexpected teen pregnancy, the lure of crime) and grow apart. Lung’s decisions lead him to reflection and motivating victory, Wai’s to tragedy.