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GOD MAN DOG |
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RELEASE：2008 |
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This is a rhapsody of Gods, men, and dogs down and out together. A meandering truck full of gods gets mixed up with a cast of outcasts whose lives gradually entwine with each other. Yellow Bull, the owner of the truck, travels around giving shelter to deserted god statues yet can't afford to have his artificial leg fixed. Biung, an alcoholic aboriginal, transports top-class peaches between a remote village and Taipei city yet finds himself less valued than even a peach. Ching, a depressed middle class wife, attempts to redeem her marriage after the death of her newborn. Then there's a fatal car accident caused by a stray dog. Can it change their lives and put an end to the obvious and distinct boundaries between them? |
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[ CREW ] Executive Producers: YEH JUFENG, SUNNY CHEN Producer: CHO LI Line Producer: LEO CHEN Screenwriters: SINGING CHEN, LOU YI-AN Director of Photography: SHEN KO-SHANG Gaffer: LEON YUAN Production Designer: HUANG MEI-CHING Art Director: LEE TIEN-CHUE Costume Designer: PAULINA CHIOU Editors: SINGING CHEN, LIAO CHING-SUNG Sound: LO SONG-CE, DENNIS Y.F. TSAO Music: SAKAMOTO HIROMICHI Special Effects: COOLFRAMES DIGIWORKS CO. [ CAST ] TARCY SU as Ching CHANG HAN as A-xiong JACK KAO as Yellow Bull JONATHAN CHANG as Xian ULAU UGAN as Biung MO GAI I as A-mei TU XIAO-HAN as Savi CHANG CHUN-MING as Xiao-han [ DIRECTOR ] SINGING CHEN Taiwan's most eye-catching and authentic talented female director born after 70s. Most of her works are stylized and fast paced direction favoring issues concerning art, and culture. In 2000, her first 16mm feature "BUNDLED (WO JIAO A-MING LA)" immediately raised interests leading her to win many awards from domestic, and international film festivals, including Best Drama & Most Promising Director of the Year at Taipei Film Festival and Ecumenical Jury Award & ACAT Human Rights Special Award at Fribourg Film Festival...etc., In 2003, she directed a TV single episode, "THE WEDDING" for Public Television, which was nominated for 6 Golden Bell Awards. |
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Human beings set the values of a peach, a dog, human, and even God has a price. In a material world we are living in today, everything leaves to be evaluated. However, every single soul still wanders without finding a harbor before the original burden and ties around them are ripped open. In the film, all the material, spirit spa resort, deity statues, religions can't help these people to find inner peace. Even to the end, all the social class structure is disrupted as the million dollar antique statue is placed side by side with the rest of the broken statues, and a pure bred dog is wandering along with the stray dogs...Somehow this seems to be the only way to express the slight hope of freedom, and to express the drifting souls of human beings. Meanwhile, I try to express the uniqueness of Taiwan's collage culture. Just like the deity statues in the truck that are fitted with neon lights, it's a glamorous and wild visual imagery; an accidental bizarre offspring of external and internal culture clashes. |
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*Official selected by NEW CURRENTS section, Pusan Int'l Film Festival, 2007. *Nominated Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Original Screenplay of Golden Horse Awards, 2007. *Selected by THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF NEW CINEMA section, Berlin Int'l Film Festival, 2008. *Official selected by Fribourg Int'l Film Festival, 2008. *Official selected by Taipei Film Festival, 2008. |
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