In Broad Daylight

2023 [CN]

Drama

5
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 1067 1.1K

social issues investigative journalism

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Plot summary

Kay is a tough-as-nails investigative reporter, and goes undercover at a home for the disabled based on a tip about staff abuse of the residents. She not only corroborates the frightening allegations but also discovers how disastrously flawed Hong Kong’s health care system is, especially for those who cannot care for themselves. However, after her story breaks, further unspeakable truths are revealed leading Kay on a dire crusade for justice.

Director

Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan Photo
Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan

Top cast

Bowie Lam Photo
Bowie Lam as Cheung Kim-Wah
Rachel Leung Photo
Rachel Leung as Wong Siu-Ling
Lam Wong Photo
Lam Wong as Female Inspector
David Chiang Photo
David Chiang as Chau Kin-Tong
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973.27 MB
1280*536
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 2
1.95 GB
1920*804
Chinese 5.1
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 21

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ObsessiveCinemaDisorder 8 / 10

An effective social issue drama with strong ensemble performances

Putting a loved one into a care home is a difficult predicament. There's the powerlessness and guilt of not being able to do more than you can. Knowing that they're waiting for the inevitable end alone, the hope is your loved one person is in the best hands possible.In Broad Daylight is a slice-of-life social issue drama that toys with that very notion in a thought-provoking fashion. Based on a real-life scandal of the Cambridge Nursing Home, whose staff was caught water hosing the elderly in groups on an open rooftop in 2015 and later exposed for physically abusing their patients.Investigative reporter Kay receives an anonymous tip and goes undercover into the Rainbow Care Home, an elderly home that is allegedly physically abusing and mistreating its patients behind the scenes.In Broad Daylight is a heavy but worthy watch. The film forces the audience to confront difficult ignored feelings, empathizing with the elderly being alone, neglected, and becoming an unwanted burden on their families. And for younger people, there's the abject terror of living in an elderly home when you get old one day.Jennifer Yu leads the movie adequately as the journalist and is wonderfully supported by a strong ensemble cast of veteran actors, including Shaw Brothers' David Chiang and Bowie Wu as elderly patients and Bo Pui Yue as the scary abusive nurse and a scene-stealing Bowie Lam as the care home's warden. Rachel Leung and Henick Chou also shine as two mentally disabled patients. I expect acting accolades for the majority of the supporting cast come awards season.Writer-director Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan presents the everyday ins and outs of life in the elderly home, peeling the onion layers and examining the situation from all sides, even from the perspective of its supposed evil staff.In the film's highlight moment, Bowie Lam's warden delivers a bone-chilling monologue on how society neglects the elderly. And he is right.The film emphasizes that it's up to the press to expose these scandals further to end them, ending on a slight dissonant note. That might be true, but as the credits rolled, my mind gravitated towards the fate of the abused elderly patients-specifically all the actual abused patients out there that the film is representing. That's a much more compelling thought to end on.That minor quibble aside, In Broad Daylight achieves its goals effectively, almost like a wake-up call to anyone with a parent living in a care home, reminding them to spend more time and perhaps even to examine their living conditions. This movie is bound to leave a lasting impression.
Reviewed by KentaroGod 8 / 10

Top notch acting and realism at its best

Firstly let me congratulate all the winners in the movie including best actress supporting actor and actressA well deserved win indeed the acting of all the actors was superb.. the movie really brings you as though you are the one living in the caring centre.The location and the set designer were great too highlighting the actual environment which is now currently facing by the elderly and the handicapped people in HKBut for the movie I felt it to be a bit boring and the pacing to be a bit slow other than that everything was all dandy for meA big shout out to Bowie Wu for his performance in the movie.. which was outstanding.
Reviewed by dave118118 8 / 10

An important film

In Broad Daylight - 7.5/10A Hong Kong set Chinese film about systemic abuse in care homes. It's an investigative journalism procedural and it ticks all the boxes you expect. It's very similar to the Weinstein exposé film She Said and follows more of less the exact same template.I expected the horrors of the care home abuse to be frequent and harrowing, but it instead focuses more on the human relationships between the various residents that occupy the home. It is at its best in the quieter moments when human emotion is allowed to bubble up to the surface. The score and cinematography kick in, and you get way more heart-warming moments than I expected.Towards the end the focus on the abuses does ramp up, but it is handled tastefully and doesn't contrive any unnecessary shock tactics to convey its message. Some of the subtitles moved extremely fast so there are a few snippets of info I didn't fully take in. It touches on the widespread scale of the abuse throughout the country and given that it has only recently been exposed the mainstream media, it makes it all feel extremely prescient.An important film that approaches its difficult subject matter with respect, but perhaps in the hands of a better storyteller it could have been more impactful.Much like the Anthony Hopkins film One Life that I saw a few weeks ago, at the end of the film everyone remained seated till the very end of the credits as a mark of respect for the subject matter.
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