Country: Hong Kong
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
A man ,dressed as a monk, is walking slowly , so slowly that becomes almost painful and annoying to watch, in the busy streets of Hong Kong. In an era of speed and modernity the man remains an ancient figure who massacres just with his appearance and slowness the idea of normality that seems unchallenged for everybody else. Moreover, is a profound irony to the way that the man is moving in slow motion. On one hand he obliges all the viewers to look at him as the center of action, even if is not any real action in what he is doing: what the others do on the screen even if they are busy and active gets overcome by the man's passivity and gets emptied of any importance. On the other hand the man himself is the manifestation of time that is eternal and is measured , in the best case, in centuries, consuming billions of lives with indifference and without to be 'aware' of how unique and important each life consider itself. Tsai Ming-liang always used the slowness as an act of revolt. However , in this film , goes a bit deeper as he gives to this slowness a deep philosophical meaning
You can watch thew full movie here: https://vimeo.com/49339358
No comments:
Post a Comment