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  The Wayward Cloud 2005

  ★★★½ Watched 30 Oct 2020

  Tsai Ming-Liang's seventh feature continues to explore some of the themes common with the director's work, isolation and alienation

  Having seen only his debut feature my knowledge on Tsai's filmography is very limited but it's very interesting to see how the two films vary; while they share many themes we can see two very different approaches, in this case Tsai is more experimental and daring.
  The movie is static, the minimal style of Rebels of the Neon God is taken…

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  Rebels of the Neon God 1992

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2020

  This review contain a few spoilers even though the story itself is pretty minimal, read at your own risk

  
  In the depths of Taipei two lives intertwine, a rebellious boy forms a sort of obsession with an unaware hoodlum. Ancient gods resurface in the backdrop of a dismal city where decay reigns supreme. The street life, often depicted and idolized in movies as a way to reach complete freedom, here is represented as a cage where shadows wander around the…

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