Claustrophobia. The state in which fear arise when being inside an enclosed space, and is the best title there is for this Ivy Ho's directorial debut. It is kind of a romance film without too many dramatic love plots. In stead, only an ambiguous relationship goes on between a marketing secretary and her married manager.
"Claustrophobia" opens with Tom (Ekin Cheng) driving Pearl (Karena Lam) home with other colleagues after a late-night drinking session, which is the ending of the story. Then the film proceeds to flash back one week; one month; half of a year; and 18 months previous. This story-telling form of going back in time, step by step, gives adequate explanation of how the ending comes about.
The director has long being writing script for movies, though this is her first piece of being a director. Claustrophobia is a little bit too quiet comparing to the other popular romance movies, and also a little hard to understand. The setting is always in a limited car space. Really not hard and the film just took 16 days to record. It is better to have a peaceful background and watch it by yourself or with few close friends, because there is not too much to talk about while watching an obscure film. That way you may focus on the atmosphere the director tries to make, and the intense inner struggle between the two lead roles.
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