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"God Man Dog" (Virtual Cinema)

Saturday, March 23, 2024 12:00 AM
Friday, March 29, 2024 11:55 PM

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TAIWAN CINEMA SHOWCASE

GOD MAN DOG
(流浪神狗人)

SPECIAL ENCORE
Taiwan | Drama | 2007 | 119 minutes | In Mandarin w/English subtitles

Available for streaming March 23-29, 2024 for U.S. viewers.

DIRECTOR: Singing Chen
STARRING: Tarcy Su, Jack Kao, Ulau Ugan, Jonathan Chang, Han Chang, Xiao-han Tu

SYNOPSIS:

A meandering truck full of gods are mixed up with a cast of outcasts whose lives gradually entwine with one another. 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 premium quality 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?

“GOD MAN DOG is a genuine attempt at ambitious storytelling that rewards - not publishes - involved audiences with its payoff. With solid performances, an impressive screenplay, beautiful cinematography, and a stirring score by Hiromichi Nakamoto, GOD MAN DOG proves that there is still hope for Taiwanese cinema.” - Kelvin Ma

SINGING CHEN’S DIRECTOR STATEMENT
”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.”