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Master of Fine Art Thesis: A Critique Essay on Thesis Film "In the Name of Love"

國立臺北藝術大學 / 電影創作學系碩士班 / Author:LIOU, YI-JHONG

《In the Name of Love》is a "Family Drama" genre short film, starring Haung Tsai-Yi, Lee, Ho Sheng Fei, directed by Shih Po-Han. The story of this film is based on director's emotion toward his mother during his teenage period, written in a realism style and presented in a three-acts structure. The theme of this film concentrate on parents' over control and interrupt on children's live and education. Via Tzu-Ren keeping a kitten with his crush ─ Yi-An as a beginning, making the already intense mother-son relationship even more intense after Tzu-Ren's late night home Leaving and drinking with lovelorn Yi-An. The story climbs up to the climax in Tzu-Ren's huge fight with his mother, about all the dissatisfaction, endure and desire to be free. 《In the Name of Love》hope going through the process of composing and organizing the difficulties of growing up, and the meaning of "love", to reconstruct how a family ─ most basic unit in human society ─ should look like.

This thesis is divided into seven chapters, written in the angle of the producer of 《In the Name of Love》. Research process including topic development, information and data gathering and script writing, explaining this film's plan, budget arrangement, execution, conclusion, review and future plan. Chapter 1 explains creation description, background and research Method. Chapter 2 is topic elaboration and literature review. Chapter 3 explains film's genre. Chapter 4 is the full planning of the film. Chapter 5 is the execution of the film and its' conclusion. Chapter 6 and 7 contain the process of creation and final review.

Keywords:parent-child relationship, family, ethic, family relationship, personality development