2017 · drama · comedy · social
The Great Buddha+
Directed by Huang Hsin-yao1h 42m2017
Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies' will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals.
Our read: The Great Buddha+ (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · comedy · social entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
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