After School (film)
| After School | |
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 The logo for After School | |
| Directed by | Zhu Houren |
| Starring |
Jacelyn Tay
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| Distributed by | National Crime Prevention Council |
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| Country | Singapore |
| Language | Mandarin |
After School is a 2003 film made in Singapore directed by Zhu Houren. It is based on a true story that happened in Singapore about teenagers.
Plot
Siao Han is a 16-year-old secondary 4 student, whose parents abandoned him when he was young. Siao Han is getting ready for the end of school with his best friend, his girlfriend Lily and his girlfriend's best friend. In a shopping centre, they shoplift from various shops. Siao Han was caught and reported to the police, whose leading officer is his older sister. His best friend came to his rescue, but Shao Han's sister decided to bring Shao Han to further investigations. Lily saw this and walked away in disappointment.
At home, during dinner, Shao Han was angry with his sister for arresting him in her first day leading a team. He went to his aunt's place to smoke and visit Ah Xiong, an elder cousin and a bookie. After his sister comes and find him, Shao Han runs off. Ah Xiong wants to woo Siao Han's sister.
At Siao Han's school, his best friend discussed Lily and their supposed breaking up. While talking, a bully hits Siao Han's best friend, and Siao Han gave him a hard glare which Lily saw, though the bully continues taunting him.
Lily goes to a nightclub, saying that she was going to do a project to her mother, and steals a phone, but is caught by gang members. The gang leader, M, gives his number to Lily, and she starts hanging out with the gang.
Siao Han and his best friend ask Ah Xiong for advice, while getting none, he gets his gang and bashes the bully up, and Siao han's best friend fights one-on-one against the bully. The next day, he started becoming a gangster and then the leader of the gang. His gang confronts M's gang and Lily, and Lily gave a preposition: Whoever steals the most expensive bag for her, she will be his at her 16th birthday. Siao Han and M went to the same shop and tried to steal, but Siao Han was caught dumbfounded as he stood at the detector, resulting in him getting caught. He was later bailed out by his sister, which results in another argument between them.
Lily and M's gang celebrated her birthday at the nightclub when she met them. She was drunk and M started caressing her body, afterwards dragging her to the toilet, where she vomited. M washed her face and threw her in the toilet stall and raped her. She committed suicide at her home afterwards, while Ah Xiong was beaten up by gang members for refusing to be a bookie anymore, resulting in both broken legs, which made Siao Han infuriated and thirsting for revenge. He contacted his best friend, which revealed that it was M's gang who raped Lily and caused her death, and also beaten up Ah Xiong. He sent his gang to beat M's gang up. Siao Han and his sister visited Ah Xiong at the[hospital, but ran off with his sister chasing him, resulting in a dramatic chasing scene with a conversation between the siblings, which revealed that their parents favoured Siao Han more, leaving his sister to their grandmother, but in the end still leaving Siao Han to his aunt. During this, it was shown that M and his gang was in an argument because the newspaper had news of them raping Lily and causing her death, while Siao Han's best friend was intending to ambush them.
In the gangfight, M's gang members pushed all the blame to M, which made him chased by the gang. He met a dead end when he saw Siao han charging at him, while his best friend stabbed him from the back.
Cast
- Jacelyn Tay - Lin Yifang
- Thomas Ong - Ah Xiong
- Wang Ruixian - Shao Han
- Liang Zhihui - Chen Han Xiang
- Shun Ai Liu - Zhong Lili
- Hong Huifang
- Jin Yinji
- Zhu Houren