Director Weng Shou Ming made his feature film debut with this super 16mm movie Fujian Blue, which tells the stories of China’s young people who are troubled and becoming more materialistic by going through the erosion of traditional values. Living through their aimless and dissipated days, American and his friends go out every night in their van to fancy nightclubs to sing and dance. What they do is look for couples who seem like they are about to have an adulterous relationship. They take pictures of them so they can blackmail them. Finding out that his mother is having an affair, American threatens his own mother and exploits her for a lot of money, only to lose it all accidentally. From that point, this dynamic debut of Weng Shou Ming tells two linked stories from two different aesthetic views. What drives many young people in Fujian Province to illegally emigrate, possibly their only way out, is their feeling of insecurity, shown through the skillful handheld techniques of this film. (박종호)