Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Cres Chuang | ... | Pickle | |
Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen | ... | Belly Bottom (as Bamboo Chen) | |
Leon Dai | ... | Kevin Huang | |
Shao-Huai Chang | ... | Skaya / Sugar apple | |
Yi-wen Chen | ... | Congressman Gao | |
Na-Dou Lin | ... | Peanut (as Na Dow) | |
Kuo-Lin Ting | ... | Yeh Feng Ju | |
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Yung-Feng Lee | ... | Deputy Speaker |
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Yueh-hsin Chu | ... | Singer (as Pigheadskin) |
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J.C. Lei | ... | Gucci |
Mei-Hsiu Lin | ... | Sister | |
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Pei-Fang Wang | ... | Peanut's Uncle (as Xiao Liang Ge) |
An-Shun Yu | ... | Shun | |
Vincent Liang | ... | Deputy Commissioner | |
Hsien Tuo | ... | Pickle's Uncle (as Tuo-Shen Chen) |
Pickle is a night security guard at a bronze statue factory. His colleague, Belly Bottom, works as a recycling collector during the day, and Pickle's biggest pleasure in life is flicking through the porn magazines Belly Bottom collects in the small hours in the security room. Having late night snacks and watching television are an integral part of their dull lives. One day when the television is broken, their lives are changed forever. The story involves gods, the middle-aged men's sexual desire and the conversation between ghosts and humans. Written by Anonymous
The depiction of the lowlife feels very real- their timidness, their very limited, non-imaginative desire and their quiet desperation. The black and white for the poor and the color for the rich adds to the contrast of lifestyles of social classes on the extremes. Yet interestingly, I don't think the film is trying to make people angry in any sense. It just make you feel, 'that's the way it is'.
Mixed with the realness is the symbolism shown in the film. I think it's best that viewers not try it too hard to put logic into every plot of the film, but just accept it as an artistic expression .