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A Critique Essay on the Film Work “Ending Cut”

國立臺北藝術大學 / 電影創作研究所碩士班 / Author:Chi-Hua Liao

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The “Ending Cut” is a short film focuses on senior people, discussing family extension from marriage and children. Author develops this script by observing himself and many of his single 1960er friends, who are under pressure from their parents’ idea for offspring the next generation.

The “Ending Cut” project is applied by Wu’s Production Co., is sponsored 1 million by 2008 News Bureau Short Film Foundation, the shooting started on 2009 Feb., after crewing the team, author did the scene-inspecting around south Taiwan, Kaohsiung Love River, Zhou Ying Servants’ Village, Tainan Ann-Ping District, Ann-Nan District, etc.., The author believes that Kaohsiung City build up too many sky-scrapers and wide boulevards, is away from the script’s atmosphere. The Zhou Ying Village which is now destructing will cause certain framing difficulty. In this case, Love River will be one remaining choice at Kaohsiung, however, shooting Love River alone will be too costing for the production, as a result, the film is taken at Ann-Ping District, after the crew is final on Mar., the film is shooting off and completed on Apr.

The film discussing the general aged society phenomena and the traditional idea of re-generation, in this graduate production, the script-writer discussing the establishment of sociological overwhelming patriarchal family, the Chinese traditional idea of re-generation and family extension, the insights of those who decided to stay single, and text analysis. During the production, the director’s creative ideas and aesthetics description, the discussing inspected the father’s deep expectation for grand-son in An Lee’s movie “The Wedding Banquet” and the father’s loss about his two sons’ stay single and give him no hope for grandchildren, the loss, the expectation and the behavior difference between the two fathers.