Parking (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3
Chang Chen (Actor)
| Guey Lun Mei (Actor)
| Chapman To (Actor)
| Leon Dai (Actor)
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numinair
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June 2, 2009
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June 2, 2009
Trapped From Life Motion
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I watched this after seeing “The Equation of Love and Death” DVD. I say this as I found connected aspects with both films; cars and ‘motion’, separated lovers, white lies and letters, drugs and prostitution, bumbling stooges, and probably things my brain cannot see without watching both again more intensely. Chung Mong-Hong’s “Parking” is partially a none linear expressionist film, with a bit of Velvet Underground resonance. The plot is more complex of the two movies, having a simple premise but with multifaceted and connected ‘apartment’ situations that reveal deeper truths about Chen Mo’s random parking situation. Chen Mo decides on Mother’s Day to meet up with his estranged wife in Taipei, so stops at a cake shop below an apartment block to buy a cake, to help make amends at their meeting. But Chen Mo’s car gets trapped by a double-parked car with a bullet shot windscreen outside the shop. A helpful one armed barber shop owner informs Chen Mo that the driver lives on the third floor of the block. But searching for the car owner, Chen Mo only finds himself immersed ever deeply into the dark social cruelties that surround the apartments, which seem to mirror his own reality. Amidst his search Chen Mo meets an elderly couple who believe him to be their son and a little girl his daughter, a prostitute from the mainland whose trying to escape an oppressive pimp, and a gangster harassed suit tailor (Chapman To). The cinematography and settings are quite theatrical; the apartment scenes having a filmic stage show look. Surreal lens filtering also makes for some dreamy angles as if the whole experience is one big unusual dream. But the ‘arty’ aspects don’t overwhelm crucial plot development. Acting is excellent, Chang Chen gritty amidst the blend of moody humor and mean streets and Lun Mei Guey looking utterly transformed from her innocent “Secret” part. A film about the state of money over real life, living concerns and survival, marriage and compatibilities, sex and depravity and the inevitable results of what can happen when things slip into a sleazy declining environment. Its a slide show cinema of ‘outsiders’, in characterization, time and linearity, and suggest much more than it seems. It’s certainly funny though in a droll manner, like when Chen Ho sits on his cake by accident and cleans his trousers in a washroom where a fish head is soaking in a sink, and black comedy dialogue. An excellent film but needs extra considerations. |
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