A town with a broken leg is a problem writer and a street gangster with a broken leg

Nyasia 2022-03-15 09:01:10

"Teenage Nezha", I like it more than "Long Live Love". Li Kangsheng's dead fish eyes look terrifying, but also distressing. Whether it's playing arcades, stealing game boards, driving motorcycles, picking up girls. Still doing questions. The life of a small town gangster whose leg was broken and the life of a broken leg at the door of the small town's home do not seem to be parallel, and they seem to be isomorphic. It's like the wet and dirty water that keeps pouring out of the floor drain and can't be blocked. Like a wet cockroach in dirty water waiting to be pierced by a compass.

Director Cai filmed his inner youthful desire, and mercilessly stabbed to death and drowned.

You thought that you finally made up your mind to run away from home, and then you could live the life of a street gangster who looks youthful and free. You are in the end the ghost that the little gangster neither sees nor cares about, the ghost who kills and mocks your own youthful, salty and wet fantasies, mocking the dead, cold flesh in the dark and gloomy urban grave.

Even if the call does come, you will never answer it.

After watching this, I realized that Director Cai really doesn't like the way we watch his films, pirated online resources. Although I also know that there are directors who are supportive or indifferent, Director Cai clearly said so. For a moment, there is still a kind of silly pleasure of Xiaokang looking at the scratched Azer motorcycle (sorry, this is really incorrect).

Speaking of which, Gui is really sad and beautiful.

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Extended Reading
  • Alisa 2022-04-19 09:02:56

    I haven't had this experience in a long time, and it feels like a movie was made entirely for myself. Xiaokang is silent, autistic, and wants to attract the attention of others, but he is worried that he will be noticed by others. Sometimes I want to speak, but I'm afraid to end the claustrophobic state I'm used to. So he always appears perverse in front of people, always inexplicably silent or irritable. This is the hero of Dostoevsky. "Basement Man" in Taipei.

  • Bernhard 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    Cai Mingliang's debut novel, the first of the "Water" trilogy. 1. A work that establishes a style: long shots, fixed camera positions, almost no soundtrack, little dialogue, and noisy ambient sound. 2. It can be roughly summed up as neo-realism focusing on the heart, which seems to have the flavor of Antonioni. 3. Confused and restless youth, undercurrent of lust, and rebellious loneliness. 4. Smashing a car and betting on a keyhole is a metaphor for envy and resistance to heterosexuality. 5. Outside the painting space, nailing cockroaches, rain and dirty water. (8.5/10)

Rebels of the Neon God quotes

  • Ah Kuei: Ah Tze, let's leave this place!

  • [first lines]

    Mother: What on earth happened? You are all bloody. What happened?