Goodbye, Dragon Inn
by Ming-liang Tsai
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Actor: Chun Shih, Kang-sheng Lee, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Shiang-chyi Chen, Tien MiaoDirector: Ming-liang Tsai
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Cantonese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Movie Review: A wonderful film that can test your endurance yet greatly rewards the patient and observant.
Summary: 5 Stars
I will admit that this film is not for everyone. This is a VERY slow film, there is very little talking, and many shots that linger on what seem at first to be insignificant things. Yes there is no overall plot beyond "the last operating night of a movie theater", but there are many other stories being told within that basic framework. If you actually pay attention to what the film is showing you, you start to see the stories of the people and the place unfold. You start to understand what their lives are, and what the life of the theater is and has been over the years. The place is something more than what it was meant to be. The people are doing more than what they seem to be, or would be expected to be doing in such a place. Today we are so used to listening to a film, and we forget about watching it. Seeing what is happening in the film rather than following the story through what is said in the film. We are so used to having everything laid out for us on a golden platter that we forget about paying attention. We forget how fulfilling it can be to suddenly put two and two together and realize what we are actually seeing, and what it means to everything else we have seen. Silent films, in a much broader and more obvious way forced you to understand the story based on what you saw on screen visually. If you've seen enough silent films you know that the dialog cards were actually often used very sparingly. Entire portions of the dialog would be delivered on screen with only the actors performances revealing what was being said. This film is very much like that only much more subtle, and without even the silent dialog to inform the viewer. You see these events and have to pay close attention and remember things for it to become clear why you are being shown it. But if you have any sort of patience in the end it pays off, and it feels like you have gotten something more meaningful out of this film than just a straight forward happy little story about a once beloved place. You understand the sadness and emptiness that permeates the place and the people in it. It is a very powerful film for anyone with the patience and sense of wonder to actually follow the stories as they slowly and silently unfold.
Summary of Goodbye, Dragon Inn
A Japanese tourist takes refuge inside a run-down movie theater and discovers that some of its patrons may actually be ghosts from the film playing on screen. From Tsai Ming-Liang, director of The River and What Time Is It There?.Art House & International DVD Video
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