Rebels of the Neon God (2015) Movie Critic Review

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Rebels of the Neon God (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     106 min
Production:     Central Motion Pictures
Genre:     Drama
Country:     Taiwan
Languages:     Mandarin, Min Nan
Director:      Ming-liang Tsai
Stars:        Chao-jung Chen, Chang-bin Jen, Kang-sheng Lee

Rebels of the Neon God (2015) Critic Review: Defying his parents, Hsiao Kang drops out of the local crammer to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a pretty hood and their relationships is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry that soon leads to trouble.

IMDB By 7.6 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103935/

Rebels of the Neon God Movie Review By MDBReviews

Rebels of the Neon God is, in one sense, author executive Tsai Ming-liang's examination of a few young people meandering the lanes of Teipei, wavering between their homes, an arcade, and a skating arena while showing little limit for reflection or outward elucidation of their predicaments. Notwithstanding, on another level, the aggregate of Tsai's presentation highlight unfolds like a counter to Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, looking to examine inquiries of pop-social impact not as an issue of tribute or inference based deconstruction, however as a condemning treatise on the way of item position, globalization, and the frequently harmless finishes of realistic play. Each of these possibly divergent lines of request unfolds with an amazing clarity as to absolutely how, by and by, energetic proclivities are inseparable from exploitative manifestations of corporate capital.

Tsai's characters are unequipped for perceiving these structures on the grounds that they're so enmeshed inside them. Hsiao-Kang is a calm, very nearly quiet understudy, selected in a nearby school course at the interest of his average workers folks, who are pestered by their child's absence of activity and appearing nonattendance of social aptitudes. Tsai uncovers their worries more through response shots and proposal than dialog; similarly, two or three negligible hoods named Ah Tze and Ah Bing ride motorbikes, planning to be seen as symbols of cool, which the score by Huang Shu-Jun blankly supplements through its electronic, insignificant sounds. On the off chance that Tsai gives characters space to articulate their contemplations, its frequently to uncover bizarre sexual flow, as when Ah Bing asks for that Ah Kuei , Ah Tze's future sweetheart, sit between them at the films, so he can "appreciate her scent too." Although Ah Tze is puzzled by the solicitation, he too has gathered sexual delight, jerking off prior in the film to the qualities of his more seasoned sibling having intercourse with Ah Kuei. Account strands are tied and made huge through tangential, however covering wishes, not minimum of which incorporates Hsiao-Kang's inevitable shadowing and captivation by Ah Tze.

Tsai's fairly broad characterizations provide him templates upon which to mobilize a stringent, if distanced, infiltration of urban places, particularly those which house the ends of youthful pursuits. In this way, Rebels of the Neon God pinpoints a video-game arcade as the locus classicus, the contemporary destination of neon godliness, even though the film's title more explicitly refers to Hsiao-Kang's mother's belief that he's the resurrected neon god Nezha. Yet her beliefs appear naïve, even doltish compared to the arcade's glow and lure, which prominently positions a spin-off game from Terminator 2: Judgment Day in an early shot. The inclusion is telling, perhaps even directive, in understanding Tsai's deviation from a cinema that uses public spaces for springboards into violent, fantasy-driven, special-effects extravaganzas. Moreover, the reference to Rebel Without a Cause is clear: Tsai's rebels have no cause for a much different reason than the titular figure of the Nicholas Ray classic. Rather than caught amid the strife of generational uncertainty, they're cast into a digitized milieu of Western cultural relics that posses merely a bastardized semblance of originary essence.

Tsai attaches these affirmations most evidently to Hsiao-Kang, who sits around his parents' flat, pointing and toying with his newly acquired pellet gun in a manner that deliberately recalls Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. However, Tsai consistently frames Hsiao-Kang in long shots, preventing any identification whatsoever with his burgeoning taste for revenge. There's nothing romantic here about violence, nor is there an affected visual style; to this end, Tsai takes instruction from a film like Touki Bouki for its engagement with dominant, fashionable film styles, but for the purpose of renouncing it. If Djibril Diop Mambéty's film sought to castigate the French bourgeoisie for its insouciant demeanor in post-colonial relations with Senegal, Tsai's film quite similarly integrates key French and American points of cinematic reference on violence and masculinity to subtly assail them.

The film puts forth no authoritative expression on the relationship between media, craftsmanship, and roughness, however its reiteration of spaces, much like the emptied impersonation of earlier movies, lingerie Tsai's announcement he could call his own role as stubbornly hostile to cool—that he's not utilizing any kind of cinephilic information for social capital. Despite the fact that Rebels of the Neon God might in flashes appear to be judicious of such movies as Chungking Express or Millennium Mambo, it reproaches a treat shaded, noirish lacquer through a practically neorealist enthusiasm for human enduring, while endeavoring to establish a respect invalidation, that perceives the threat in diminishing workmanship to a what Fredric Jameson called "clear farce." Rebels of the Neon God makes one long for an option reality where it, not Pulp Fiction, turned into the guide of '90s autonomous filmmakin. 

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