The 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival
10-year commemorative retrospective of Edward Yang
獨立時代
1994 國語 125 分鐘 中文字幕
演員：陳湘琪、倪淑君、王維明、鄧安寧
可能是楊德昌最被低估的野心之作，對準台北摩登時代的一眾新人類，電影拉開錯綜複雜的人際關係網絡，在經濟迅速發展、物質越加豐盈的城市，觀察他們為時兩天半的生活，透過角色的感情流動與利害關係，以萬花筒結構和精準的鏡頭調度，展現年輕一代的慾望與躊躇、貪婪與恐懼。楊德昌首次利用喜劇方式，駕馭劇場表演風格，在獨立時代思考儒者的困惑，對台灣社會提出犀利批判。金馬影后陳湘琪初次擔綱主角，已叫人眼前一亮。入圍康城角逐金棕櫚獎。
A Confucian Confusion
1994 Mandarin 125min
Cast: Chen Xiang-Qi, Ni Shu-Jun, Wang Wei-Ming, Danny Deng
A biting black comedy. Molly (Ni Shu-Jun), a bourgeois PR executive, has a glamorous career, a rich boyfriend, and a devoted personal assistant. But when she fires an employee for petty reasons, the tangled web connecting Molly and her whole yuppie circle becomes more complex. And a peripheral character has written a novel in which Confucius returns to modern Taipei and is praised as a brilliant charlatan: Yang’s vision of a glittering city with its values in crisis.
