(aka 'Haonan haonu' or 'Good Men Good Women')
Japan / Taiwan 1995
Modern-day actress Liang Ching (Annie Shizuka Inoh), is set to star in a film about the White Terror, the Taiwanese government's crackdown on suspected Communists during the early 50s. Caught up in rehearsals, Liang Ching finds herself imagining the film she will be starring in, but her visualization of scenes from the script seems inflected more and more by her personal memories which are awakened by the mysterious receipt of faxed pages from her old diary. As a result, she is forced to relive the past--blurring the lines between her movie role and real life.
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This film about sadness is full of life. It has too many elements to
talk about: the music, the shots of trees, the food, the way people talk to
each other like real human beings — not like one supermodel to another, and
the beautiful and precise imagery. There are plenty of ambiguities, things I
can't explain, things that can't be explained. Good Men, Good Women
adopts a serious attitude to life. It suggests that there are difficult,
painful social and personal problems that aren't going to be solved overnight,
or by shortcuts. Good Men, Good Women needs to be seen and re-seen.
Writing about it only gets you so far.
And the conclusions you draw from the film will partly depend on what you
bring to it. It's not “pessimistic.” The real pessimists today are the ones
who more or less cheerfully accept the present situation. There's hopelessness
for you! André Breton was another artist who knew that history had psychic
consequences. And he wrote that “the feeling that one is lost, however
alarming it may be, is not — far from it — one of those feelings that leave
man in the depths of despair, precisely because it instinctively begets the
question of how to find a way out.”
Excerpt from By David Walsh's article for the World Socialist Website located HERE
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Theatrical Release: September 15th, 1995
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| Distribution | Fox/Lorber - Wellspring Home Video - Region 0 - NTSC | |
| Runtime | 1:47:52 | |
| Video | 1.75:1
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| Audio | Mandarin / Cantonese / Japanese / Taiwanese (Dolby Digital 2.0) | |
| Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Edition Details: • Trailer
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Quite poor -
non-anamorphic, non-progressive (see combing in last large capture) - a
sloppy image from Fox/Lorber. Edge enhancements, no detail and a black
border around the image prohibiting full horizontal resolution. Tack
onto this yellow subtitles (that are at least removable)- a weak audio
track, bleeding colors and you have typical Fox/Lorber quality. Another
fine mess. There is another Asian DVD version floating around and we'll
see if we can compare it. As for this
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