Mo yan ka sai

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Angela Au, Wing Yin Cheung, Maggie Poon, and Kit Man Tam in Mo yan ka sai (2000)

The film depicts the story of four troubled teenage girls in Hong Kong. The story revolves around a young pregnant girl and her friends embarking on a journey of drug use, suicide, betrayal,... Read allThe film depicts the story of four troubled teenage girls in Hong Kong. The story revolves around a young pregnant girl and her friends embarking on a journey of drug use, suicide, betrayal, and growth.The film depicts the story of four troubled teenage girls in Hong Kong. The story revolves around a young pregnant girl and her friends embarking on a journey of drug use, suicide, betrayal, and growth.

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6.8/10

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Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

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Kit Man Tam

Cookie
(as Debbie Tam)

Wing Yin Cheung

Sissy
(as Christy Cheung)

Angela Au

Banana

Maggie Poon

Bean Curd

Vanesia Chu

Leung Lai-Yee
(as Chu Man-Wah)

Hoi-man Lam

Mosquito

Gary Chan Chi-Yan

Magazine photographer

Po Yee Fong

Bean Curd mom
(as Bonita Fonda)

Wai Hon

Ka-Yin Lai

Fung
(as Kenneth Lai)

Chun Wai Lee

Chun
(as Emily Lee)

Ping Qiu

Shim-Chu Wong

God sister

Wai-Him Wong

School Dean of Students

Yuk-Ting Wong

Banana mom

Ray Wai-Shing Wu

Editorial department of magazine

Yung-Lin Yeung

Nurse

Bill Yip

Interviewer for the Exchange Student Program

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10ETCmodel02

Brilliant yarn about Hong Kong girls growing up!

Teen girls work through numerous personal and inter-social issues, basically what Glass Tears should have been. The film does and incredible job of pushing the protagonists through a series of completely believable choices, events and situations. Moments which compel, if not bluntly force them to each review and reassert their sense of themselves as individuals and as part of a larger society. Excellent camera work, acting, staging and pacing. Love this film, find this one NOW!

10InzyWimzy

It's spacked alright!

Great title for this movie.

This story of teen angst, confusion, refusing to conform: all shown through Cookie and her friends. It's definitely good that the movie is NOT trying to be like an afterschool special saying don't do drugs, don't have sex, and so on. But, it does try to help viewers understand why some adolescents may live like this. Maybe it's fear of the future, lack of guidance or support, or coping by losing one's self. There's no right or wrong, good or bad. Despite a few light moments, Spacked Out has some dark, disturbing themes which may offend some. Then again, it's the realness and the characters themselves that made it so fascinating. Especially Bean Curd who gives such a true performance which, at times, seems frighteningly real! So, watch this one and see what you can draw from it.

8chabotage

If you like movies like Kids, Thirteen or Christiane F. this movie is for you!

Great obscure Chinese film!

This movie depicts the life of four teenage girls and it's not pretty: Teen pregnancy, prostitution, drug abuse and traffic, violence. The most shocking thing in this flick is the girls have 13-14 years old! It is shot documentary style with some surrealistic scenes. Those surrealistic scenes happens in a party scene and this is the best part of Spacked out. It is very realistic and all the cast does a great job except the one tomboy teen, she pisses me off at some parts but at the end of the film you're gonna understand why she's like this. Not haunting as Christiane F. or shocking as Kids, but it's very realistic and it's a bit shocking and depressing. Hard to find but it deserves to be seen! Great Film!

Trivia
During filming, 'Spacked Out' completely abandoned the original script written by Shiu Lin Au, Laoshu, and Sin Ling Yeung because it only magnified the darkness and downfall of teenagers' problems without caring about their inner feelings and hopes for the entire social environment. Therefore, director Lawrence Ah-Mon, assistant director Andy Tse, and art director Wing-Gei Chan recreated the script during filming. Only the characters Sissy and Bean Curd were originally described in the script by screenwriters Laoshu and Sin Ling Yeung. The rest of the plot did not use any of their creations. Some of the plot in the film was even provided by the actors during filming. Most of the dialogue was improvised by the actors themselves because no one could write their conversations.

Quotes
Cookie: Mom, when are you coming back? Why don't you , take me with you? You know what an asshole your husband is. Really, do you hate me? Not even a phone call.I only hear from you through the pager. Don't tell me you've forgotten, Have you re-married? Am I really your daughter?

Alternate versions
In the version of 'Spacked Out' that was introduced to China for streaming, certain scenes had to be cut. Firstly, the scene in which a female student self-harms with a cutter on her hand after an argument in a school class was removed. Secondly, the scene at the end where everyone gathers in an old house to take drugs was also cut. Approximately 2 minutes of footage was removed to pass the review.