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THE HUMAN COMEDY
Original Soundtrack to Hung Hung's Movie
The Human Comedy weaves four loosely adapted, updated Confucian
moral fables (The Book of 24 Filial Pieties) into a sensitive,
often comical portrait of contemporary Taipei. A salesgirl
exists in a fantasy world, missing the life around her. A-xing
rehearses an avant-garde play for a director dying of AIDS.
Asked to perform a nude scene, he must choose between satisfying
his demanding director and facing his conservative mother, who
will be in the audience. Cramped space and cockroaches send one
battling couple on a comical quest for a new flat. Meanwhile,
Darren faces down a raging typhoon to rescue his ex-wife. In
these struggles between self-interest and self-sacrifice, Hung
Hung uncovers the quiet miracles of everyday life. |
