Run Papa Run
‘Run Papa Run’, a Hong Kong film, was released in 2008 and was directed by Sylvia Chang. The movie is based on a novel written by Benny Li.
It has a numerous amount of styles that are easily identifiable in the film. It holds aspects of comedy, melodrama, gangster and thriller.
The film focuses on a leader of a gang, who tries to conceal his identity from his daughter. It follows the life of the family and how long the truth is hidden from the daughter, with us the audience knowing that it will all end badly, as most things do when you leave things for a long time and ignore the truth. I found the narrative very simple to follow and I found myself being able to relate to the characters as it is always a worry for parents for their children to know the truth when it contains such huge danger. Taking on a similar genre to the previously watched film Shinjinku Incident – I was expecting similar – a film where there was a lot of violence to be seen.
Out of all the films I viewed, in my opinion it was the best one as it was easy to relate to and included several genre elements. It was an easy watch film despite the thrilling and gangster parts to it. The film was also occasionally humorous which worked really well as it complimented the seriousness of the film well. Definitely one of the best.
