Then perhaps, it could have also been the smell of real Hong Kong. It is as if the movie theatre can release a fragrant of the movie, it would be, as what the main protagonist described, the smell of rubbish. The movie seems to actively asking audience not only looking at the stunning yet very harsh black and white visuals, but to sense the desperation of the characters, the smell of non-stop rain from trashy industrial buildings, as well as the out casts of our society but also the very places that they had to put up with. There were in the past many fine example of local production of gruesome and gritty crime stories and yet, Limbo pushes the envelope even further. Limbo is probably of one of the boldest attempt to put HK well-known crime drama along with the film noir genre.
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