DanielleShaw Reviews

Working Class (1985)

a true classic film from one of the greatest directors of our time!

[10/10 · 2 March 2005]

I would compare this one to something from Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Michael Curtiz or even to Three Stooges. I know it's not really one of the best Hark's films but still it's very rich and fluid in structure with great social commentary (that also strangely hearkens back to that lacking capitalistic feel of the 80's in America). I think that Tsui Hark definitely has done much more memorable film than a lot of commercial HK films of that time and even now like absolutely forgettable Love On Diet or Shaolin Soccer. Since late 80's when i saw Working Class first time it became quite supporting film for me over the years, because already at the beginning this movie shows us how life can be pretty unrighteous and hard to get through but at the end we learn that man can find the meaning of life even in the most imponderable and trivial places and really be happy, so it was kinda inspirational. It has many reinvented old-fashioned classic scenes with that beautiful & typical Tsui Hark twists that i really love but may not appeal to everyone, but that's OK, though, i'm really glad that this film fairly grew up to the well-deserved status as a true classic of the 80's.