Circle Line

Watched Malaysia and Singapore's 2023 Circle Line (1:18:40). A subway train goes out of control, crashes into an abandoned tunnel, and goes off the radar in the control room. Among the passengers are a young mother and her little boy. The passengers are besieged by a creature that looms out of the darkness and attacks them.

This production is a Southeast Asian parallel to the 1986 movie _Aliens_ minus the space technology. Like Aliens, it is not so much about monstrous creatures as it is about motherhood. It is as slow-paced, quiet, and dimly lighted as Halfworlds, and, like Halfworlds it holds one's attention as magically as does a Harold Pinter play.

In the end, one mother dies and another mother lives.