“Dangerous Lies” is as Predictable as Can be
The film may be a thriller, but I wasn’t thrilled by it. If anything, I was bored and annoyed.
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Ming, travels to Hong Kong with her mother to search for her younger brother, Aki, who left home with dreams of becoming a star, only to discover that Aki has become a male prostitute. A-Ming gradually leaves her hometown and becomes close with the people living in the dormitory for staff at an abandoned pharmaceutical factory. Through her interactions with them, she develops an inseparable brotherly bond. However, cold-hearted authorities invade the crumbling temporary paradise built on the ruins.
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Ming, travels to Hong Kong with her mother to search for her younger brother, Aki, who left home with dreams of becoming a star, only to discover that Aki has become a male prostitute. A-Ming gradually leaves her hometown and becomes close with the people living in the dormitory for staff at an abandoned pharmaceutical factory. Through her interactions with them, she develops an inseparable brotherly bond. However, cold-hearted authorities invade the crumbling temporary paradise built on the ruins.
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