If Chung King Mansion is a microcosm of the world, then Tin Shui Wai is the paradise lost that best represents the periphery of Hong Kong. Director Ann Hui's "Tin Shui Wai Sisters" - "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai" and "Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai" have made Tin Shui Wai well-known, among which "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai" was nominated for Best Film at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards; Ann Hui won the Best Director Award at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai". These two films tell the story of warmth and tragedy in Tin Shui Wai, and the documentary and restrained approach also presents the unpretentious Tin Shui Wai in front of the audience.
Tin Shui Wai is located at the northwest tip of Hong Kong, across the sea from Shenzhen, and belongs to the third generation of public housing in Hong Kong. Tin Shui Wai was built in 1987, but it was not until 2003 that buses and light rail were gradually connected, and basic facilities such as education and medical care were also seriously insufficient. Under this plan, the area has long been home to various social problems such as poverty, suicide, depression, and crime, and the approximately 320,000 people living in it are almost all low-income families.
Tragedies continue to be staged in Tin Shui Wai, with murders and domestic violence emerging one after another. In 2004, a tragic incident shook Hong Kong, and was later made into a movie by Hui Anhua "Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai", starring Yam Dahua and Zhang Jingchu. However, until 2017, Tin Shui Wai was still the No. 1 spousal abuse case in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's "most" is gathered here: the largest number of new immigrants from the mainland, the largest number of unemployed people, the largest number of low-income people, the largest number of single-parent families, the most domestic violence, and the most juvenile problems.
Tin Shui Wai's pathos may only come from the media and politicians, but it also has a warm side. "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai" tells the story of a woman (played by Bao Qijing) who lives with her son in Tin Shui Wai and strives to survive.
The movie "Siege of the City" is also a realistic movie set in the Tin Shui Wai family, the elder brother Lingjie and the younger brother Junjie were born in a troubled family, the elder brother studied hard in order to escape poverty, and the younger brother was abused by his father for a long time, and finally ran away from home to join the children's party. Hong Kong people like to isolate the "pathos" of Tin Shui Wai from the "prosperity" of Hong Kong, and it has also become one of the places that directors with a humanistic vision pay the most attention to.
After years of development, Tin Shui Wai has communities, parks, churches, primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, sports grounds, shopping malls, small supermarkets, vegetable markets, and stations...... If you put aside the pathos given by the media, it is like an isolated paradise. In Li Keqin's "Tianshui, Siege of the City", Lin Xi wrote words to describe Tianshuiwei, which "surrounded further education", "surrounded harvest", and "surrounded by blood and sweat", as "a country of its own", which is no exaggeration. If tourists have humanistic feelings, Tin Shui Wai will be a "sample" worth observing and experiencing.
