Introduction
Tomorrow
is another day was a television drama series broadcasting on TVB
Jade from 6th Oct 2014 to 31st Oct 2014. Its theme was
about Hong Kong Correctional Services Department (HKCSD). During the shooting
process, HKCSD supported TVB and came to its assistance. Similar to other
television drama series produced by TVB, romantic elements were added in the
narrative of Tomorrow is another day in
order to add interest to the series.
Content
The series talked about HKCSD Principal Officer Man
Sheung-sing (portrayed by Lawrence Ng), aged 44, worked in the Stanley Prison
to monitor prisoners’ discipline and teach them to obey the rules in the
prison. The sector Man worked in was defined as the most dangerous as the
sector had lots of male prisoners, who committed serious crime for life
imprisonment, being jailed there. However, he was very smart and courageous to
deal with any violent incidents initiated by the dangerous prisoners there. On
the other hand, HKCSD Officer Kaka Yiu (portrayed by Kate Tsui), aged 28, worked
in the Lo Wu Correctional Institution and she had no enthusiasm in her job at
the beginning but after she experienced a female prisoner called Chu-chu
(portrayed by Harriet Yeung) who committed suicide because of her, she finally
found out the real meaning of being a HKCSD Officer – to mend prisoners’ ways
sincerely.
In this television drama series, romantic elements
were added. It talked about Officer Man, as known as “Uncle Man”, was Yiu’s
uncle (close friend of Yiu’s elder brother). Yiu fell in love with Uncle Man. However,
he rejected Yiu initially because of the seniority and he did not want people,
especially Yiu’s elder brother, to blame him as this violated the traditional
Confucian values.
Later, Officer Man was hit by a group of gangsters,
which was controlled by Yip (portrayed by Pal Sinn), one of the prisoners in the
Stanley Prison, as Yip took revenge to Officer Man. And Yiu in order to protect
Man being hit severely, she was hit and had been in a coma for a few days. Man
felt guilty that he did not accept Yiu’s love for him and finally he accepted
Yiu’s love.
Social issues
Different from the Western values “free to love”,
being a Chinese sometimes needs to follow the traditional Confucian values. And
in the Confucian values, it is not quite good to fall in love with your close
friend’s younger sister as the above example.
On the other hand, this television drama series
advocates the notion of “never too late to mend your ways”, for instance, even
the prisoners who were in life imprisonment, if they would like to mend their
ways to contribute to the society, they can even have the chance to gain the
amnesty by the Commissioner of Correctional Services.
Iconography
The theme of this series was about HKCSD and
audiences can find sharp toothbrush and some self-made weapons by the prisoners
and the setting of this series was prison.
Name: Ling Chi Yuen (10518147/21423333)
Word count: 496
Introduction
Tomorrow
is another day was a television drama series broadcasting on TVB
Jade from 6th Oct 2014 to 31st Oct 2014. Its theme was
about Hong Kong Correctional Services Department (HKCSD). During the shooting
process, HKCSD supported TVB and came to its assistance. Similar to other
television drama series produced by TVB, romantic elements were added in the
narrative of Tomorrow is another day in
order to add interest to the series.
Content
The series talked about HKCSD Principal Officer Man
Sheung-sing (portrayed by Lawrence Ng), aged 44, worked in the Stanley Prison
to monitor prisoners’ discipline and teach them to obey the rules in the
prison. The sector Man worked in was defined as the most dangerous as the
sector had lots of male prisoners, who committed serious crime for life
imprisonment, being jailed there. However, he was very smart and courageous to
deal with any violent incidents initiated by the dangerous prisoners there. On
the other hand, HKCSD Officer Kaka Yiu (portrayed by Kate Tsui), aged 28, worked
in the Lo Wu Correctional Institution and she had no enthusiasm in her job at
the beginning but after she experienced a female prisoner called Chu-chu
(portrayed by Harriet Yeung) who committed suicide because of her, she finally
found out the real meaning of being a HKCSD Officer – to mend prisoners’ ways
sincerely.
In this television drama series, romantic elements
were added. It talked about Officer Man, as known as “Uncle Man”, was Yiu’s
uncle (close friend of Yiu’s elder brother). Yiu fell in love with Uncle Man. However,
he rejected Yiu initially because of the seniority and he did not want people,
especially Yiu’s elder brother, to blame him as this violated the traditional
Confucian values.
Later, Officer Man was hit by a group of gangsters,
which was controlled by Yip (portrayed by Pal Sinn), one of the prisoners in the
Stanley Prison, as Yip took revenge to Officer Man. And Yiu in order to protect
Man being hit severely, she was hit and had been in a coma for a few days. Man
felt guilty that he did not accept Yiu’s love for him and finally he accepted
Yiu’s love.
Social issues
Different from the Western values “free to love”,
being a Chinese sometimes needs to follow the traditional Confucian values. And
in the Confucian values, it is not quite good to fall in love with your close
friend’s younger sister as the above example.
On the other hand, this television drama series
advocates the notion of “never too late to mend your ways”, for instance, even
the prisoners who were in life imprisonment, if they would like to mend their
ways to contribute to the society, they can even have the chance to gain the
amnesty by the Commissioner of Correctional Services.
Iconography
The theme of this series was about HKCSD and
audiences can find sharpened toothbrushes, razor blades, different kinds of self-made prison weapons, etc by the prisoners
in the series and the setting of this series was mainly prisons.
Name: Ling Chi Yuen (10518147/21423333)
Word count: 496
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Is_Another_Day_%28TV_series%29
http://programme.tvb.com/drama/tomorrowisanotherday/
