election mark the 2nd trial society theme movie direct by johnnie to . to marvellously casted simon yan and tony leung kar fai a lok and big d and a the two trial member who be choose a candidate for the position of chairman for ho sing society and a 100 year old trial society . while lok be a man who keep his cool at all time and big d be not only impatient and but also think that he be on top of everything . lok be choose a the next chairman for 2 year . to have the total control of the gang and the newly elect chairman must be pass down with a dragon baton and which represent power and authority . big d be extremely unhappy with the result that he be not choose to be the next chairman after pay a handsome figure of bribe to the council member . he order his man to get the baton before it fall onto the hand of lok . while big d be get the baton and lok have other plan for him . this be one of the trial society theme movie where not much bloodshed be need . johnnie to put the greed of the human being in the movie and where bloodshed be commonly use in other trial society theme movie to show how the greed of human being can cause the death or the downfall of one . however and no single bullet be use and hardly any gangfights be involve in election . it the battle of the wit that make election stand out of the rest . apart from maggie shiu and the only actress in election with less than 5 line to talk in the whole movie and masculinity rule the whole movie . louis koo and nick cheung and who be see in to previous film and be cast a an undercover cop and a gangster who sell his life to the gang respectively . together with some of the veteran actor make their appearance in the film and the excellent script and it make the only hk movie to represent cannes fil festival 2005. election have hardly fail any critic who want an different trial society theme movie .