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Bu San
Good Bye, Dragon Inn
Taiwan 2003
produced by Homegreen Films
directed by Tsai Ming-Liang
starring Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Tien Miao, Shih Jun
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A run-down movie theatre is showing, as its last show, a screening of
King Hu's Dragon Gate Inn, & audience is scarce. & during
the screening of the movie the trivial
things that the few viewers, the female cashier with a bad leg (Chen
Shiang-Chyi) &
the projectionist (Lee Kang-Sheng) turn into mini-dramas, telling about a homosexual Japanese
(Kiyonobu Mitamura) searching for a
light for his cigarette (& possibly love) in a maze of rooms &
hallways adjoining the actual theatre, about the cashier-lady's failed
attempts to get the attention of the projectionist, even by (rather
ritualistically) sharing a bun with him, & of Tien Miao & Shih
Jun, original actors of the King
Hu-movie reliving their past glories in the nearly empty theatre - tears in
their eyes.
Actually, almost nothing happens in this movie, which is
actually enforced by it being shot in mostly (not exclusively) long
& static shots, & a lack of dialogue (apart from that spoken in Dragon
Gate Inn), still, Bu San is far from being boring, with its
shots carefully arranged to create atmosphere, the random stories told
creating some kind of suspense because they are so overly
trivial, & the very dynamic film-within-the-film Dragon Gate Inn
(one of the key martial arts movies) contrasting the very static
direction of Bu San perfectly.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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