
When a well known businessman goes missing, owing $100m to Taipei's underworld, two hoods decide to follow his son, the leader of a youth gang. A small group of trendy foreigners gets caught up in the action.... (Full plot summary below)
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When a well known businessman goes missing, owing $100m to Taipei's underworld, two hoods decide to follow his son, the leader of a youth gang. A small group of trendy foreigners gets caught up in the action.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn angry and disjointed comedy on the dark side of urban living in Taipei, where greed becomes the accepted norm in society. |
| User ReviewEdgar CYang envisions Taipei this time as a perfectly spherical onion with all of its layers, the bad smell of crime and insecurity, the tears in the characters, the multiracial collage it forms and the background of each individual finding its course interrupted by the constant interferences of others. We go deeper, towards the onion's core each minute Yang tells us something, like a rare hybrid between I Vitelloni (1953) and Mean Streets (1973), until the cataclysmic finale. 97/100 |
| User ReviewDimitris SNot necessarily a victorious effort for all the protagonists,the feeling of boredom,reckless rebellion and oh-so comedic attention is what makes us get involved with this mosaic of intertwined events in Taipei.Superb performances from all the cast with Congsheng standing out,Yang is penetrative in the simplicity of the city's natural flow that we almost become part of its heat and bright lights. |
| User ReviewKaHo WYang captures the spirit of a time of decadence right on. |
| User ReviewJeffrey CEdward Yang's second last work. A movie that Singaporeans are too polite to make ourselves - of foreigners and locals scamming each other at the height of Taiwan's economic boom. |
| User ReviewWS WNo real complaints but it feels lacking somehow. Part of me couldn't decide if I liked or disliked any of the characters, and in the end I think I just couldn't relate to any of them. Everyone just seems to be absurdly floundering through life with occasional tangents into "missing businessman" plot. |
| User ReviewSilas AA film that offers a lot but never quite gets there in this early Edward Yang flick. Some WOEFUL acting performances don't help. SEEN AT THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. |