Do No Harm
October 18, 2018 5:55 PM   Subscribe

Do No Harm. "3am. 1980s Hongjing. In an aging private hospital, a single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician’s oath when violent gangsters storm in to stop a crucial operation." [SLV, Via]

The Vimeo Blog:
While writing the script for an action feature with a “twisted female Mr. Miyagi character in it” filmmaker Roseanne Liang was inspired by a harrowing story involving the Hippocratic Oath that her sister told her. Liang elaborated: “She’s a surgeon in real life, and one night while she was working in the ER, this guy came in critically injured from an attack by a mob of people ... because he’d fatally injured a child. My sister told me how she literally had to repeat the Hippocratic Oath to herself as she operated on the man. It wasn’t her job to be his judge and executioner - it was her responsibility to be his physician. I found that tension of oath versus justice deeply fascinating.”
posted by homunculus (3 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
I still can't think about the Hippocratic Oath without remembering this classic Onion piece: Hippocratic Oath 'Under Review' By HMO Board
posted by homunculus at 6:00 PM on October 18, 2018 [3 favorites]


Excellent film!
posted by darkstar at 7:33 PM on October 18, 2018 [1 favorite]


Oh nice, this was up against my friend's film in the New Zealand's Best Short Film 2017 - Do No Harm won the audience award, no surprise as it was technically the most impressive film there.
posted by Pink Frost at 2:23 AM on October 19, 2018 [1 favorite]


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