| "Goodbye Dragon Inn" is one of my favourite movies by Tsai Ming Liang, where he, with is usual slow-paced and reflexive style, builds a film about the end of cinema, or, more accuretly, about the end of going to the cinema, the end of watching cult movies in traditional venues. In this film, most of the characters (i.e. the spectators of the final session of "Dragon Inn" in a cinema that's going to be demolished) all go to the cinema not to watch the movie, but to shelter from the pouring rain, or to look for gay encounters. In the almost empty room, few are actually watching the movie. Parallel to this, there's an understated love story between the projectionist and the ticket girl, told with great simplicity, with the rain as a constant bacground.
"The Missing" is a movie by Lee Kang-Sheng, the main actor of basically all of Tsai Ming Liang's movies. In this, his directorial debut, he makes quite an impressive feature, wich draws heavily on Tsai Ming Liang's cinematic style. |
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