同流合烏

同流合烏 (2015)

This visually stunning erotic drama follows a young man who finds himself unexpectedly attracted to his handsome, outspoken male professor. Despite — or perhaps because of — his conservative upbringing, Hins is intent on getting close enough to Ming to understand him. It’s an experience that transforms his life and comes to define his adult identity.

Erscheinungsdatum
2015-11-01
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (15)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 34 Min.
Genres
Komödie, Drama, Liebesfilm
Regie
云翔

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Utopians is a 2015 film by the Hong Kong filmmaker Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It is the story of a university student who becomes deeply attracted to his male professor, and whose life changes as a result. The film received its world premiere on 31 October 2015 at the New Directors Film Festival in Japan.

Production

Utopians explores several themes traditionally regarded as "taboo" in Hong Kong society and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes. It is the sixth of eleven publicly released films by Scud. The other films include: City Without Baseball (2008), Permanent Residence (2009), Amphetamine (2010), Love Actually... Sucks! (2011), Voyage (2013), and Thirty Years of Adonis (2017) (which features footage from Utopians).

The uncut version of Utopians includes a scene in which the main character, played by mainland China actor Adonis He Fei, is shown completely naked stroking his erect penis as he sighs with pleasure until he ejaculates.

The film's director, Scud, says that he drew inspiration for the film from the writings of Plato and the culture of Ancient Greece, which he describes as the "best era of mankind" when being gay was mainstream. On the film's themes, Scud stated that "the dream of a utopian life" is one where education "serves to enhance love instead of forbid it", and that this became clear to him ever since he was aware of the sexual alternatives available.

Scud says that he fell into depression after making his fifth film, Voyage, and was considering ending his career. But one day a 19-year-old boy came to him and talked about his story of having fallen in love with a policeman, and about a Japanese writer whose work Scud had read extensively when he was younger. After this, he felt his next film should pay tribute to the period of enlightenment brought about by great philosophers and artists.

According to the director, Utopians took only weeks to write and shoot. Scud also experimented with a more "democratic" method of filmmaking by consulting the cast on the roles they most preferred to take and encouraging them to resolve matters among themselves, much like conflict resolution in ancient times.

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