Blossoms Under Somewhere (2024) on Netflix
Ching struggles with stuttering. Her best friend Rachel urges her to sell the lingerie she has worn online, and the compliments from her buyers give her the attention she has always wanted.
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Plot summary
Ching attends a prestigious secondary school and struggles with stuttering. Her best friend, Rachel, encourages her to sell the lingerie she has worn online for extra pocket money, and regular buyers begin to order. Ching enjoys their compliments and chats with them often. On Rachel's advice, the two open a false account as a flight attendant, because pants of that kind sell for thousands of dollars. When buyers ask to meet face to face, Ching agrees to one meeting, and the patron's insistence and her own stutter keep her from refusing.
Cast
- Sheena Chanas Rachel Ho
- Paisley Pui Wei Huas Lady Snape(Paisley Hu)
- Cheok Mei Leongas Ben's Mom
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blossoms Under Somewhere (2024)
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- In its first week of shooting, the school that had leased its campus to the production withdrew permission on the second day, after the controversy over the schoolgirl-themed documentary To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self (2022). On the fifth day the crew lost the apartment used as Ching's home when the building changed ownership and the new landlord refused filming.
- After struggling to find an actress for Rachel, Riley Yip approached Sheena Chan after a friend showed her a music video of a Taiwanese singer featuring Chan. Chan was unaware that selling worn lingerie online is an actual business before the project.
- To research the film, Riley Yip joined Telegram groups where second-hand lingerie is sold, disguising herself as a patron.
- Riley Yip refined the screenplay with producer Fruit Chan during the COVID-19 pandemic and changed the ending from tragic to comedic, to create a "lighter and more energetic" film that contrasted with the prevailing social atmosphere.
- In Riley Yip's original script both protagonists were physically disabled, one with a stutter and the other with dyslexia, but she changed their character settings after finding it hard to portray how they communicated.
- Casting lasted two months, during which some participants dropped out upon learning the film's true subject; Yip had advertised the auditions by describing the film as focusing on "a business surrounding subculture".
