Feb 3rd, 2010 by cm2
Poetic pictures, quiet, long sequences, time flows slowly without much happening for the first part of the film. The story meanders episodically around two brothers and their father. All three are criminals. The elder brother Che returns to his decaying hometown in northern Taiwan, after serving a three-year term in jail for a crime his brother had committed. He is the central figure, who tries to keep his brother out of trouble. Together with the other family members they are a gang of drug dealers. A gang war hangs in the air, the younger brother’s short fuse has much to do with this situation. In the middle of the story the father is coming back from Japan where he lived as a yakuza. He had abandoned his wife and his two children. His wife is already dead for years. Returning home he wants to pick up the family business and lead.
They all live a dreary life, no visible difference between the normal people around them. And there is the fact that the family is partly Japanese, a stigma. When the father prefers to speak Japanese he gets translated by one of his bodyguards. Che confronts him for neglecting them for most of their lives.
The film breaks into small sequences which are headed by chapter titles. The episodes do not always connect, they jump back and forth a little. Interspersed are some moments of tranquility when Che reflects his time with his mother.
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