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Tian Bian Yi Duo Yun (2005)

Comedy | 112 minutes
3,17 254 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 112 minuten

Alternative titles: The Wayward Cloud / 天邊一朵雲

Country: Taiwan / France

Directed by: Ming-liang Tsai

Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen and Lu Yi-Ching

IMDb score: 6,5 (5.933)

Releasedate: 19 May 2005

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Tian Bian Yi Duo Yun plot

"A fruity, juicy and spicy."

It is a warm period in Taiwan. There are major water shortages. Shiang-Chyi returns to Taipei after a stay in France and discovers that the place where she used to meet the watch salesman Hsiao-Kang is no longer there. She is very lonely the first time after her return. Until she accidentally bumps into Hsiao-Kang in a park. He now turns out to be an actor in porn movies that are even shot in the apartment next to hers.

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Spetie

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Finally got to see Tsai's most famous work on moviemeter. I liked three of the previous four quite well, but The Wayward Cloud is unfortunately slightly less.

The subtle slowness seems to have disappeared here, giving way to exuberant slowness. That sounds great, of course, but it isn't. Visually it's more than okay, with the big plus point being the colorful musical interludes that were quite fun to watch.

Besides that, the humor especially disappointed me and it is all somewhat repetitive with those porn scenes. That got pretty annoying in the end. It's not all that bad and there are some nice moments in it, but it's not enough in my eyes.

By the way, I'm curious what that food in the movie is called that expands in the hot water. That looked really nice and I've never seen it before.

2.5*

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Ferdydurke

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Making porn: how hard can it be?

It might be the funny title of a beginner's guide to the adult entertainment industry, but in The Wayward Cloud Tsai makes 'porn' coincide with 'love', and gradually dances unconcernedly past all ambiguities towards a dizzying climax. Pandora's briefcase is finally opening, so to speak.

That ending sequence is one I won't easily forget. An astonishing apotheosis, in which several opposing perspectives are united in one image: the cold registration of the film crew, the role of the toiling porn actor who changes into that of the self-ecstatic consumer, and the disgusted look of the woman, who transforms into... so what? Surrender? But that is also a porn fantasy once again.

And with that we arrive at the viewer, who at this shocking union of opposites, which Tsai had until then had cosily revolve around each other in an alternately brooding, dryly comical and above all very 'physical' atmosphere, is overtaken by correspondingly contradictory feelings of disgust. and excitement, indignation and emotion.

This doesn't seem like an obligatory 'charge' against the porn industry to me; perhaps a questioning of the porn fantasy, but that fantasy is, of course, no more than one of the expressions of human desire, torn between spirit and flesh. And in portraying that desire here, Tsai has delivered an exceptionally strong film.

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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Well, there's that opening scene. But otherwise typical Tsai. At times I can enjoy his work, but sometimes it is a dull, distant emptiness that I hardly get fascinated by. This film mainly concerns the second version of Tsai. A succession of scenes, one of which stands out, but most of them failed to interest any moments. I also thought the songs in between were weird. Visually fine otherwise and I wouldn't call this a bad film, the film doesn't get any worse anywhere but two hours is really too much. 2.0*.

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