Country: Taiwan
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Slow with very few dialogues, almost without a story to narrate, 'Rebels of the neon god' somehow manages to be one of the most attractive films of Ming-Liang, and probably the one that we can identify ourselves at its characters with the most ease, especially if we had troubled teenage years in past. The frustration of the youth, the alienation with the elders, the existential loneliness, the sex that is rather a burden than a joy, the lack of realistic dreams, the need to get free from the rules, the awe in front of the meaningless: this was the life for many of us living in the hostile environment of the modern big cities, in a dystopic soulless world made of metal and glass.
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