Norris Wong – My Prince Edward Q&A
Norris Wong, the writer and director of My Prince Edward, talks about the inspiration for the film, and her experiences as a young female director working in the Hong Kong industry
Attack and defense, that’s what fencing is, and so is life. Two university fencing team players are meant to be each other’s archenemy. Fung, who is talented but bad-tempered, lost his place to Pun in representing the university in the upcoming inter-school competition. He puts the blame on the fact that Pun was born to be the son of the past representative of Hong Kong fencing team, which is an advantage that he could never beat. While the other side of the story is that Pun is being pushed to the edge of nervous breakdown by his over-aggressive father, who wants his son to complete his unfulfilled dream.
