獵豔 (Zoom Hunting) is an 2010 film out of Taiwan. The movie stars Janine Chang (Ning Chang), Chu Chih-ying (Zhu Zhu-Ying), and Wen Sheng-Hao. The supporting cast include Chou Heng-yin (Zhou Heng-Yin) and Michelle Krusiec. The movie is director Cho Li's debut and ventures into suspense thriller territory.
Chang plays Ruyi, a freelance photographer on an hiatus. Ruyi randomly takes pictures of things all around her balancy and accidentally captures an couple across the way getting it on. Ruyi is intrigued and starts to take more pictures and starts to stalk them. Yupe, stalk them. From this, he finds that the man across the way is in relations with someone not his wife! From there, the thriller goes into overdrive as she is torn between keeping quite or telling the wife. Along the way, Ruyi confides in her sister. Ruyi's sister is an writer of erotic thriller a la 50 shades. There's a larger mystery that unfolds.
The movie was pretty good for a movie out of Taiwan. If the movie were made in HK or even the US, it would be a straight to video movie. The acting was ok and the story itself was hard to follow. I found myself having to rewind and go back to plot points that past me by. Which isn't good. However, for Taiwan movie buffs, you'll need to watch this one to see the progression made in Taiwanese cinema since.
I covered its upcoming release in Taipei back in January 2010.
