Fish, Underground

Fish, Underground

2001
Short Film
30m
The original subject intended for this film was a spiritual medium who was unbelievably accurate. Tsai Ming-liang jumped on his 50cc motorbike, equipped with a DV camera ready to shoot her, to see whether the god would speak to his camera. But on the way, he was caught in a traffic jam of people gathered at another god's festival. A man in a trance, flashy karaoke girls on stage, a power black-out. During his diversion, the camera discovers fish and underground passages. (imdb)
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Fish, Underground

2001
Short Film
30m
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Rated 21 May 2013
75
56th
Seemingly both comparing and contrasting the religious ceremony and the kitsch showgirl performance (they're aesthetic opposites, yet both involve performers sacrificing something of themselves), as well as contrasting nature and the city (one of the rare times nature appears in Tsai's films, and once again though the two things are different aesthetically Tsai highlights that nature can be just as harsh as the city is in his tales of urban alienation).
Rated 17 Aug 2009
62
20th
Rather blah short from Tsai. I liked the individual elements... the fish, the tunnels, the stripper, the vaguely religious performers(?). But the combination of them is deliberately oblique in a way that Tsai rarely engages in. I'd expect this kind of thing from him earlier in his career, not sandwiched between two of his best films.

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