After “Parasite” and “Squid Game” struck planet-wide notes with their critique of elitism, Trevor Choi’s “Smashing Frank” is a timely Hong Kong twist on the revenge-against-the-rich theme.It is being pitched at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) that this week runs alongside the FilMart rights market.“This is a comedy-drama about four millennials who form a squad to rob the rich.
During the course of the crime, they are outraged as they gradually realize that the older generation will never change their ways.
This motivates them to use stealing as their way of fighting back against the rich and the unkind,” says Choi of the project that is presented this week as part of the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf).Hong Kong has long had a massive gulf between the super-rich and the poor and other films, including Josie Ho’s “Dream Home” and Fruit Chan’s more recent “Coffin Homes,
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