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The camera follows closely on the heels of two brothers – one gay, the other straight. Both are
looking for a job in order to survive. But both are also looking for themselves and long to find a
foothold in life. The younger brother sells vegetables at the market where he meets a young woman
who cannot speak but who gets up to all sorts of crazy things. The older brother is attracted to a
dancer at a nightclub and finds himself drawn into some shifty business. Taking its cue from the
rhythm of their wanderings, the film stays very close to its protagonists, showing them in lonely
moments at the river, rambling boisterously through Taipei’s club scene by night, among barkers at
the market, and in quiet moments together. Again and again the tone and hence the mood of the
film changes. Zui Sheng Meng Si proves once again that young Taiwanese cinema does not have
to avail itself of classical storytelling to fascinate its audience. These are lives in limbo, without fixed
coordinates. In this way the film evolves into a portrait of manners, and a panorama of a society that
does not appear to welcome its next generation.
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Credits
- Production company
- Chang Tso Chi film studio
- Original title
- Zui Sheng Meng Si