Inferior to THE BROWN BUNNY


I find this movie vastly inferior to Vincent Gallo's infamous semi-pornographic tale. This movie by Mr. Tsai is much more predictable, and goes out of its way to portray loneliness, while THE BROWN BUNNY provides a more natural account of similar subjects.

Tsai Ming Liang's vision here is really quite limited in my opinion. I prefer what I have seen from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang (and to a much greater extent, my favorite auteurs Wong Kar Wai and Zhang Yimou).

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...what do u have against explicit sex in "regular" movies poor puritain mind ? After a century of evolution it'd be nearly time that explicit sex scene could be part of movies without any scandal about it...unless some narrow minded persons get shocked everytime they see a hardrn dick or an opened pussy on the screen...try this: whatch the THE BROWN BUNNY or IRREVERSIBLE or In the Realm of the Senses without ur scaring shocking scenes, maybe u'll find something in these movies...even in THE BROWN BUNNY that I must admit is not a grand-stand script of a kind :)

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You seem to have written a follow-up to a different topic, as your content is not related to my original post at all.

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With all due respect, sir, I do not believe that the turkey legs are coming.

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Why is this even compared to The Brown Bunny?

Just because it has sex?

It's like comparing a John Ford movie to a Robert Rodriguez movie just because both have guns.

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amen, anak d, amen!

this is not a porn movie but it does use porn for emphasis, imo.

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With all the due respect for Vincent Gallo, Tsai Mingliang is a real director, either you like him or not, he tries to say something about something. And he does it with a poet mind.

Vincent Gallo only likes to tell stories about himself; I find him very funny for that, he lacks that dose of autoirony that makes the difference between those who watch and those who do. So he acts, directs, sings, plays, paints shows us his penis.

Anyway you are right, both of the movie portray loneliness.

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The first 1h 20 minutes of 'Brown Bunny' is boring cross country footage. The last 10 minutes it hardcore porn. This movie is truly abysmal.

Please do not compare it to far superior movies like 'Irreversible'.

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I have to agree with the OP. Plus the fact that Brown Bunny came first, we all know who copied who

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