The Bundled
我叫阿銘啦
feature film | Taiwanese & Mandarin | 78mins | 2000 |
Director: Singing Chen
◎”Best Feature Film” and “Best New Director” of the Taipei Film Festival, 2001
◎”Prix Special” and “Oecumenical Award” of the Fribourg International Film Festival, 2001
◎”Best Theme Song” of the Gorden Horse Award, 2000
◎”Best New Actor” nominee of the Gorden Horse Award, 2000
◎Vancouver International Film Festival, “Dragons & Tigers Award” nomination, 2000
◎Creteil International Women’s Film Festival, in competition, 2001
◎Brisbane International Film Festival, 2001
◎Flanders International Film Festival-Ghent, 2001
◎Fajr International Film Festival (Tehran,Iran), 2001
SYNOPSIS
One day while wondering around a recycling depot, a homeless man called A-Ming comes across a video camera.Captivated by a tape remaining in the camera, with its images of a happy family, A-Ming goes around telling everyone that the family in the video is his. Still, nobody believes him.Over the course of his peregrinations, A-Ming meets Yong, a Taiwanese folk song busker who sings in an underpass after having lost his ability to work due to an accident on the job. The two become unlikely friends...
Whippersnapper, the former winner of a million-dollar essay contest, now lives on the street, but nobody cares and nobody seems to remember while he meander between reality and dreams. He shares his home in an abandoned car with Chun, known for his erratic and strange behavior. For Whippersnapper,life is like a dream, and like the second great work he has conceived in his mind for ages...
Wen Ping, a reporter, is the only person who still remembers Whippersnapper. She tries desperately to bring him out of his dreams, but in the midst of these efforts she ends up putting together an in-depth report on the homeless. Wen Ping interviews A-Ming, and believing his story, she broadcasts the entire videotape over the air...
A collection of homeless people lives surreal lives on the fringes of people's memories. Is it just a dream, a novel no one wants to read, or a cruel true-life news story?
一個遊民阿銘無意間在垃圾回收站揀到一台v8，v8中殘留著一家人和樂的影像，阿銘漸漸地著迷於那些影像，並且到處跟別人述說那是他家，但是卻始終沒有人相信。而在城市中遊蕩的這當中，阿銘認識了因工殤而在地下道彈月琴走唱的勇伯，兩人漸漸成為好朋友…
一個曾經寫出百萬得獎作品的少年仔，現在卻流浪街頭，沒有人在乎也沒有人記得，徘徊在現實與夢境之中。他與行俓瘋狂的阿春，住在一輛沒人要的破車中，生活對他來說，既像夢境，也像是他構思許久的第二篇作品…。女記者文萍是唯一記得少年仔的人，她極力想將少年仔從夢中拉出，而在同時，因為拍攝遊民深度報導，文萍採訪了阿銘，並相信阿銘說的一切，而將v8內容在節目播出…
一群流浪仔，在被人遺忘的邊緣過著虛幻的生活，這究竟只是一場夢、一本別人不想看的小說、還是一則殘酷的現實新聞？
