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Review: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
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In an era when most movie cameras seem to be moving more, jerking and jumping around, obscuring what they're supposed to be capturing, Tsai Ming-liang's camera grows ever more still, gazing boldly and steadily at a scene for so long that we get to know its every corner. In his 2004 masterpiece Goodbye Dragon Inn, I detected one, maybe two, moving shots. But in his latest film, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, it doesn't even budge that much.
Tsai has never been one for telling linear, easily explained stories, but at least some of his earlier films had recognizable elements. In The River (1994), Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng) takes a job in a movie playing a corpse floating in the polluted Tanshui River and develops a mysterious and apparently incurable pain in his neck. In The Hole (1998), a virus has turned most of the population into human cockroaches, and a remaining human couple bonds when a hole opens up between their apartments. In What Time Is It There? (2001), a watch salesman dreams about a girl he has only barely met as she travels to Paris (he watches The 400 Blows on video and she meets the real life Jean-Pierre Leaud). And in Goodbye Dragon Inn, several lonely people pass a rainy night in a dilapidated movie theater on the last night of its existence.
Movie Pirates Have a More Humane Defense Against Disc-Sniffing Dogs
Filed under: Home Entertainment »
In case you've been worrying all weekend about the fate of the anti-piracy pooches, Lucky and Flo, the threat on their lives may be decreasing. The bounty offered for their killing may still be on the table, but the DVD bootleggers in Malaysia are reportedly trying out other non-lethal solutions in dealing with their canine enemies. Authorities were given a new tip claiming that the movie pirates are using a chemical spray to throw off the scent of their illegally produced discs. Presumably the spray makes the discs not smell like discs -- perhaps instead like something dogs hate, like citrus.I don't mean to imply that Malaysian bootleggers read Cinematical, but this is similar to what I suggested the pirates do in order to spare the lives of the dogs. Of course, my idea was to throw off the scent with steaks (or maybe a beef-smell spray) placed in other secret rooms that don't contain discs, but the actual plan they're going with is more realistic -- if not as funny. The pirates additionally made a point over the weekend to show they weren't beaten too badly by last week's busts, which were aided by Lucky and Flo, as authorities are reporting a major presence of pirated discs at retail outlets over the past few days. It looks like the dogs have their work cut out for them in the next few weeks. Hopefully they will continue their successes without any harm or further threat coming to them.
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