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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780794202866
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0794202861
Label: Fox Lorber
Languages: EnglishSubtitledMandarin ChineseOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 04, 2003
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The first feature film from Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang, Rebels of the Neon God has more conventional "action" than most of this director's films, yet still features his unique cinematic style. A pair of petty hoodlums rob payphones and play video games at an arcade; one of them flirts with a girl who works at a roller rink. While taking her home on his motorcycle, the hoodlum smashes the side mirror of a taxi--which may be what inspires the taxi driver's son, a student who has just quit school, to follow the hoodlum around in pursuit of revenge. Rebels of the Neon God is told through a series of beautifully composed tableaux; the camera rarely moves, and most scenes are a single sustained shot. Yet the movie's measured pace and subdued but compelling visuals become strangely mesmerizing, as in the director's other films (Vive L'Amour, The Hole). --Bret Fetzer
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"Rebels of the Neon God" may be a tonic antidote to the portrayal of glittering high-rise Taipei in "Yi-Yi", but it's still a far cry from the underbelly films of Wong Kar-Wai or Scorsese. Along with Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Goodbye, South, Goodbye" (the obvious comparison), it explores not the banality of evil, but the banality of naughtiness. At least the cinematography adapts better to the small screen than "South", and the video transfer is better than the copy of "South" I viewed. (To get production ... Read More
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