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\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

THE GREAT BUDDHA+
\nCheng Cheng Films
\nReviewed for Shockya.com by: Harvey Karten
\nDirector: Hsin-yao Huang
\nScreenwriter: Hsin-yao Huang
\nCast: Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen, Leon Dai, Shao-Huai Chang
\nScreened at: Critics\u2019 DVD, NYC, 11\/18\/18
\nOpens: November 23, 2018: Taiwan\u2019s Oscar Candidate for 91st Academy Awards!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You should not be surprised to discover that the U.S. is not the only country to be plagued by inequality. Hsin-yao Huang\u2019s film \u201cThe Great Buddha+\u201d finds that Taiwan, called Formosa when it was under Dutch rule, has a similar situation. Huang, whose 23-minute film \u201cThe Great Buddha\u201d deals with the discovery of a secret behind a great Buddha statue, adds a plus to his current offering: hence \u201cThe Great Buddha+\u201d his first full-length narrative movie. <\/p>\n

With a population largely from the descendants of the people who fled the Communist revolution in China in 1949, Taiwan lives with the fiction that it is an independent country when in fact, the People\u2019s Republic of China considers it part of their vast country but allows the current status to continue. Taiwan has rich and poor, the latter having little say about their lives other than needing to flatter their bosses while those with wealth can enjoy luxuries including relationships with the opposite sex \u201cwith benefits.\u201d This theme underlies \u201cThe Great Buddha+\u201d serving not only to entertain us with comedy but also to provide a serious, underlying message that would make Mao Tse-tung, Vladimir Lenin, Pol Pol, Karl Marx, and others of their leftist views say \u201cI told you so.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poor in Huang\u2019s film are known by nicknames Pickle (Cres Chuang), Belly Button (Bamboo Chen) and Peanut (Na Daw). Kevin Huang (Leon Dai) stands in for the rich, entitled not only to material luxuries but to the services of perhaps scores of women whom he seduces (or more likely is seduced by) and abandons. In this case, the poor, Pickle and Belly Button, serve the interests of comedy while Huang becomes an increasingly sinister and more loathsome figure for us in the audience to contemn.<\/p>\n

Belly Button digs through trash to uncover reams of sticky porn magazines, but when Pickle’s boss is away, the mouse will play. Specifically Belly Button and and Pickle spend hours gazing at a screen where, having absconded with Huang\u2019s Mercedes dashboard camera, they observe his prowess with women. <\/p>\n

A black-and-white movie except when observing the footage on the dashcam taken from the boss\u2019s luxury car, \u201cThe Great Buddha+\u201d finds Pickle and Belly Button marveling at Huang\u2019s success with women, though we get the idea Huang is not Brad Pitt, he wears a large, ridiculous rug presumably in danger of falling off during his athletic bouts with women, and is desired for his Benz, which serves as a chick magnet. \u201cBirth is eight-tenths of dignity\u201d becomes the movie-summarizing quote, meaning that those who are lucky to choose the right parents know how to live while the other are lucky to get the scraps from the king\u2019s table. <\/p>\n

We can laugh at the indignities suffered by people like Pickle and Belly Button but the laughter gets stuck in our throats, as we recall a society showing the rich growing richer and the poor becoming poorer. Scenes dealing with a giant statue of Buddha which serves as a commentary on religion, demonstrate that religious beliefs are exploited, just as Marx had said, by the powerful. The film won the top prize at the 19th Taipei Film Festival and received 10 nominations at the 54th Golden Horse Awards, winning Best Adapted Screenplay and Best New Director.<\/p>\n

104 minutes. \u00a9 2018 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B
\nActing \u2013 B
\nTechnical \u2013 B
\nOverall \u2013 B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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