Cai Mingliang photography

Last year's Golden Horse Awards night, "Assassin Nie Yinniang" won five awards, leading the whole process.

Hou Hsiao-hsien won the best director three times, and the scene of the audience cheering is still vivid.

Assassin Nie Yinniang was nominated by 1 1 and finally won five awards, which was widely expected.

What many people don't know is that there was a very good China movie last year.

It received 10 nominations and finally won 4 awards.

Is the most powerful competitor of assassin Nie Yinniang.

Drunkenness leads to dream death

Last February, it won the "Pillar of Victory Award" at the Berlin Film Festival.

He was selected for the Hong Kong Film Festival in March and was praised as "Love between men and women, unforgettable".

In April, the Golden Horse Fantasy Film Festival opened.

In July, he swept six awards, including the Million Prize at the Taipei Film Festival.

Chen Guo, chairman of the jury, said, "Everything has been done well. There is nothing to say. "

Shu Kei, a Hong Kong film critic, called it "the best Chinese film of 20 15".

Starring and directing "Let Life Be Drunken"

Even in the process of judging the Golden Horse Award, its existence has posed a great threat to Nie Yinniang the Assassin's best film.

Because in the minds of most judges, Nie Yinniang the Assassin and Drunk Life are both men and women.

The Assassin

Interestingly, Tso-chi Chang, the director of "Let Life Be Drunken", studied under Hou Xiaoxian.

He is the deputy director of Hou Hsiao-hsien's masterpiece City of Sorrow.

Stills of "City of Sorrow"

Although Tso-chi Chang is not famous in Chinese mainland, he is definitely the backbone of Taiwanese films.

He is also another powerful director after Hou Xiaoxian, Yang Dechang and Cai Mingliang.

He won the Golden Horse Awards in 2002 and 20 10 respectively for Good Times and When Love Comes.

Stills of love coming.

In fact, it was not until last year that Hou Hsiao-hsien won the Best Film Award for the first time.

What's even more surprising is that Tso-chi Chang, the director, didn't show up when "Let Life Be Drunken" won the prize last year.

Because he was in prison at that time.

Tso-chi Chang

Therefore, he became the first winner in the history of the Golden Horse Award who was serving his sentence when he won the prize.

On 20 13, Tso-chi Chang was accused of sexual assault by an actress.

After two years of litigation, he was sentenced to three years 10 months.

More dramatically—

Tso-chi Chang's first day in prison happened to be the premiere day of "Let Life Be Drunken".

This film was completed between the time he was accused and the time he was sentenced.

Depression, darkness, passion, generation.

In these two years, Tso-chi Chang put all his emotions into this film.

It can be said that Let Life Drunk is an interesting film both inside and outside the play.

Drunk, alive, dreaming, dead.

The four words in the title actually represent the four people in the film.

Drunk is the mother in the film.

Raise two children alone and make a living as a mother.

Drinking all day.

Dream is the eldest son of this family and looks as perfect as a dream.

In the eyes of outsiders, he is an excellent university bully.

Only his family knows that he is gay, and only his appearance is glamorous.

On the other side of the night, he is a hot dancer in a gay nightclub.

It is very charming to get in close contact with many men every night.

Death is the youngest son of this family, nicknamed mouse.

He is a typical street thug.

Hanging out in dirty vegetable markets, flirting with beautiful young prostitutes in Sargam.

And always carry a knife with him.

He tattooed death on his arm.

He is really like a god of death in the film, and his scenes are often accompanied by dead mice, dead fish, maggots and death.

Sheng is the tenant of this family, Zheng Renshuo.

The number one cowherd in the nightclub is married, has a daughter, and has his kidney cut for his lover.

He is not only the boyfriend of two brothers and cousins, but also has unspeakable feelings for men.

He struggled in the torrent of desire for nightlife in Taipei, seeking a gap for survival.

These four people together, it is a drunken dream, dark and narrow.

The whole movie is full of cult flavor, bloody and gloomy, and evil spirits are threatening.

This film actually has something in common with the aforementioned City of Sorrow.

The City of Sadness shows the sadness of small people in a big era when mountains and rivers are broken.

Stills of "City of Sorrow"

"Drunk Life and Dream Death" is a desperate and sad emotional tear of the little people on the edge of the market.

Compared with Hou Xiaoxian's calm restraint, Tso-chi Chang gave vent to all his inner feelings this time.

Scenes of depressing darkness can be seen everywhere.

Both the youngest son and the mouse wandered aimlessly in the vegetable market.

Or closed dilapidated old buildings.

It's still this narrow and dark little space that often appears.

They all exposed the director's inner feelings without any disguise.

The lens that keeps shaking because of holding photography is anxiety.

Cutting off the client's penis with a knife is anger.

Fierce sex between two men is the result of passion.

The maggots on the ground after the mother died and rotted are panic and grief.

Finally, after the mouse stabbed the boss again and again, the whole world collapsed.

It's exactly the same as "brighter summer"

The world built by the whole movie was destroyed in the knife stabbed by the last teenager.

Stills of Brighter Summer

There seems to be no sunshine in this story told in "Drunk Life and Dream Death".

In Tso-chi Chang's movies, Taipei changed completely, wearing an obscure and cold black dress.

But Tso-chi Chang wrote a poem about the dirtiest Taipei.

The two dances in the film are both rough and charming.

Especially when men and women dance together, it is quite a bit like "spring scenery".

The scene of two people dancing interspersed with the scene of ants and maggots dancing is a genius in the film.

The few love scenes in the film are also fresh and refined.

A kiss between a mouse and a prostitute is particularly bright in the gloomy reality.

On the empty rooftop, the mouse made a "love" with blue flames.

Moreover, my brother rode a bicycle around Zheng Renshuo.

Ambiguity and lust are confused.

Movie bacteria can only say two words, moved.

The whole movie is very touching in story, atmosphere and performance.

Before shooting, the director arranged for the main actors to live together for half a year and let them treat each other as family.

Every character in the play is related to the actor's life experience.

In the film, Shuo's brother Zheng Renshuo, formerly known as Ren Shuozheng.

The actor who plays his brother is himself a university tyrant who graduated from Jianzhong and National Taiwan University.

Even, there are many actors who are too deeply involved in the play and still can't leave after filming.

In the word "drunken life dreams of death", drunken life dreams of death.

Drunk is the mother.

So Tso-chi Chang said that this film is about maternal love.

Motherly love will make you stronger and hurt you more.

Lu Xuefeng, who plays his mother, has only four shots in the whole film, but it is dazzling.

In the end, she succeeded in winning the best supporting actress.

At the Golden Horse Award, the main actor who took the stage instead of Tso-chi Chang read the testimony written by Tso-chi Chang in prison.

The most amazing sentence is:

I'm Tso-chi Chang, and I like movies.

Tso-chi Chang's erotic news reminds people of Polanski, the master, and also makes people sigh.

Polanski was forced to flee to Europe because of sexual assault.

After all, time will clarify everything.

By then, character has fallen behind the years.

And the work will always be on the table.

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