The Terrorizers

The Terrorizers

  • Director: Edward Yang
  • Writer: Hsiao-Yeh,Edward Yang
  • Countries of origin: Taiwan
  • Language: Mandarin, Min Nan
  • Release date: December 19, 1986
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: The Terroriser
  • "The Terrorizers" is a feature film directed by Edward Yang and starring Miao Qianren and Li Liqun.
    The film revolves around the stories of several characters such as Zhou Yufen and Shu'an. One of Zhou Yufen's novels won an award, and the jury praised this work as "very life-like, very tortuous, and chilling to read".

    Details

    • Release date December 19, 1986
    • Filming locations Taipei, Taiwan
    • Production companies Central Motion Pictures

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $4,989

    Movie reviews

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    • By Merle 2022-12-29 08:20:35

      Who are terrorists?

      The first time I saw Director Yang's film, I was deeply impressed. 1. The first impression is that both Mr. Li Liqun and Mr. Jin Shijie are very young, especially Mr. Jin has a lot of hair. I don't know why Mr. Li was familiar at first glance, but the more I read it, the more I don't know him.

      2. I don't know if it is Yang Dechang's personal characteristics or he made this film like this. The story progresses so slowly that I don't know what to say in the first forty or fifty...

    • By Felicia 2022-12-28 22:57:58

      terrorist

      In this story, the status of novels in society is still very important. Perhaps art is still a trend. The distance between art and reality is the reason for the advancement of the story and the emergence of contradictions. On the one hand, the art of photography is used to escape the reality of enlisting in the army, wearing the cloak of looking for a muse. , to cover up the impulsive, passionate and confused adolescence, on the other side is to constantly...

    • By Jayne 2022-12-28 17:39:03

      Because there are so many words in nonsense, I still talk a little bit.

      Full marks! Full marks! Full marks! (For the second time in the last festival, film photography made me feel the importance of pulling films, and I put on a short sunny day and thought I felt like I saw something I didn’t expect the first time, or maybe I forgot later. So I think it is necessary to enjoy a good movie repeatedly, but I only read it for the first time and say that the amount of reading is not enough. In short, I want to say that it must be very naive to read the review and...

    • By Eula 2022-12-26 06:55:14

      Who is the Terrorist?

      The alarm phone rings

      : Hey, it's the police station, hurry up and send someone here! There's a terrorist attack here!

      :Terrorist attacks? What were the casualties on the scene? How many terrorists are there?

      : The only casualty is the male protagonist. He is already dead. Hurry up and send someone here.

      : OK, where is the location? Are you staying in a safe place now to keep yourself safe? Don't worry, have you seen how many terrorists there are?

      : This... This...

    • By Cleta 2022-12-18 19:32:35

      Never try to control someone you can't control

      Xiaoqiang is confused by the deviant and rebellious Shu'an, because he sees in Shu'an the lack of courage who wants to fight against the original family and escape from military service. The biggest difference between humans and animals is their ability to use weapons and wisdom. Shu'an must be an excellent hunter in her jungle law. Using her innate talent has nothing to do with morality. The landlord is in a daze, leaving a family torn apart. Her wickedness is very straightforward, but...

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    • By Giles 2023-09-03 22:40:40

      6.0/10. There is no less boring than Cai Mingliang. . . It is a very dark and cold work. In fact, I understand that Lao Yang wants to express the alienated and depressed people in the urban environment, but it is too boring to shoot. ....

    • By Americo 2023-08-16 21:42:41

      95/100 can be said to be Yang Dechang's new attempt to text, the camera's sense of peeping is more obvious, two unrelated lives seem to be linked only by a phone call, but in fact they are metaphors for each other, interweaving montage, The interplay of dreams and reality makes the ingeniousness of the story worth pondering. The phone and water are images that run through it all the time. The phone keeps ringing, but people are aphasia. The constant flow of water is the projection of desire,...

    • By Cornell 2023-08-15 00:50:38

      Brother Yang defeated me again. The topic of big words and little use, and the tense social relations of trivial matters. Still playing the suspense ending. Fix such a good movie, dvd...

    • By Maiya 2023-08-02 14:12:36

      【Film Archive】Yang Dechang's handling of the film text has the suspicion of overloading the society of Taipei. Even though he has multiple anxieties, he is very wise and neutral on the critical level, especially in the double ending of the intertextual...

    • By Max 2023-07-24 08:49:44

      Yang Dechang's shots are really too cold, almost every frame is neat and ingenious, and it is very comfortable to look at. This kind of ingenuity is not only in the framing of the characters' bodies (such as the faceless body shots, only the legs and arms of the lower body are in the frame). ), but the environment outside the characters in the shot and the characters themselves have a sense of interaction. In this film, Yang is very good at using the environment to form a narrative interaction....

    Movie plot

    In an early morning roundup, police officer Lao Gu led Armed Police Forces to break through a thief's den and arrested Da Shun, the gangster who was going to shoot Lao Wai and his accomplices, and others. The only mixed-race girl who jumped out of the window and escaped was Shu'an, a passing boy Xiaoqiang. Went to the hospital with a broken leg.
    After Shu'an came home, she was locked in by her mother. She started making calls and jokes...
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    Background creation

    This is a dark and thought-provoking film. At the end of the story, there is a sudden turning point. In the end, we suddenly realize that what happened in front of us is just the plot of Yu Fen's award-winning novel, not real. event. It can be seen that Edward Yang 's doubts and thinking about urban life have not changed since "Story of Time" and " That Day, on the Beach " , and his black subversion of realism has not changed. The...
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