| The Attachment of the Watermelon (sounds almost Buddhist, don't it?) |
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| written by talltale |
June 11, 2008 - 9:13 AM PDT |
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More silliness from Mr. Tsai. And these are NOT what I call explicit sex scenes--despite the description here. But maybe I blinked. However, are there musical numbers from Ming-Liang? Yes! And these are rather like watching Jacques Demy, if M. Demy had gone brain-dead but kept his color scheme and umbrellas. Very bizarre.
There are also, as ever with Tsai, some beautiful, nearly-empty vistas of interiors and exteriors, little dialog (I am beginning to suspect that this director simply can't handle it), water (or lack of it) motifs, and--new this time--watermelons. Your biggest philosophical question, after watching the first scene or two (well, really, the entire movie) is likely to be: "How the hell did they keep that watermelon in place? Glue?" Oh, my, don't go there.
This one is for Tsai completists--and viewers who like color, fruit (in all its aspects) and a lot of bump-and-grind. And what about THE WAYWARD CLOUD itself? Well, it turns out to be an end-of-movie song with lyrics evidently penned by Tsai to the music of the oldie-but-goodie: "The Wayward Wind" (Remember Gogi Grant? Really? Then you're as old as I am!). |
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