A December 29 release is in order over in China for directing duo Li Shaohong and Chang Xiaoyang’s patriotic war thriller, Liberation. Set in 1949 during the final stages of the battle of Pingjin, the film stars Wallace Chung, Elaine Zhong, Zhou Yiwei, Phillip Keung and Yang Mi.
Wei Zhao (credited here as Vicki Zhao) is one of China’s more popular and richest award-winning working actors and music artists of her generation whose career in television and movies began in 1994 with “A Soul Haunted by Painting,” a romantic drama. In “Three,” we see an intense portrayal of a woman beset by her own flaws and demons, trying to sustain a balance to do the right thing for the patients she truly cares for and her own high-strung conscience. Introducing a character in her element in surgery to establish who and what she is doesn’t necessarily detract from the plot. It’s quick and painless, to coin a medical phrase. Even the surgeon’s overly dramatic moment of confronting her superior, Steven (Eddie Cheung Siu-fai), after another patient was developing complications, was being nothing but supportive and offering some calm and reasoned advice.
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