An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.
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Prestige, grave, open-ended and cool.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20237/10
This is my first foray into the world of Edward Yang and though I cannot claim to have followed all of the plot in this complex drama, it is still an oddly compelling watch. Oddly? Well that's because though the characters appear real enough in a plausible sense, the storyline develops itself and them in a none-too-predictable, not always coherent, fashion. We start with a scene that I suspect would have had the local tourist board in conniptions. A shoot-out between a drug-dealing gang and the police that leaves a body lying in the street. Even trying to move that proves perilous. That peril continues to run throughout the story as we meet a dysfunctionally married couple. He, "Li" (Li-Chun Lee) is a writer who's suffering from a fairly terminal block. She "Zhou" (Cora Miao) is an aspiring clinician who cannot quite reconcile the significance of his failure with her own need for satisfaction (professionally and emotionally). This relationship continues to serve as a conduit for a rather broad-brush look at urban life in Taiwan that includes just about every aspect of human behaviour including the scene-stealing efforts of brothel-keeper "Shu An" (Wang An) who fleeces her clients w
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Cast
- Cora MiaoZhou Yufang
- Lee Li-ChunLi Lizhong
- King Shih-chiehChen Weibin
- Ku Pao-mingPolice Chief
- Liu MingShu An's Mother
- Wang AnShu An
- Shao-Chun MaLittle Qiang
- Yu An-shunDa Shun
- Chia-ching HuangLittle Qiang's Girlfriend
- Shanqun Hong
Crew
- Edward YangDirector
- Edward YangWriter
- Hsiao YehWriter
- Chang ChanDirector of Photography
- Xiaoliang WengOriginal Music Composer
- Liao Ching-sungEditor
- Lam Dang-FeiProducer
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