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Mood:
- EmotionalGloomySexual
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Plot:
- Gays and LesbiansTragic HeroFeminismTragic LoveUnfulfilled LoveGender BendingVillage LifeGender more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceForeignPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 30s
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Place:
- AsiaChinaVillage
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Score:
- Opera
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Ye ben, 2000
Mandarin
Taiwan, China
Profile of Ye ben
Ye ben can be described as sexual, emotional, and gloomy. The plot revolves around feminism, gender bending, and village life. The main genres are drama, foreign, and romance. In approach, Ye ben is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is set, at least in part, in a village. Ye ben is located in China. It takes place in the 1930s. The soundtrack is opera.
Summary of Ye ben
Filmed in Beijing and New York, FLEEING BY NIGHT tells the story of Shaodung (Lei Huang), an American-educated cellist who returns to China for his arranged marriage to Ing'er (Rene Li) the daughter of a wealthy opera house owner. Once back home, however, Shaodung finds himself drawn to singer Lin Chun (Chao-te Yi), whose impassioned rendition of the opera "Lin Chun Flees By Night" strikes a deep chord in both him and his fiancée. The three become friends, with Ing'er unaware of the deeper attraction between the men. Unfortunately Chun is trapped in servitude to the master of the company, who pimps him out to a rich playboy (Lai-jen Tai), and Shaodung is deeply closeted, which hinders him from acting on his desires. Set primarily in the late 1930s (but ultimately spanning decades), the film effectively uses China's pre-revolution cultural contrasts to parallel its characters' own identity crises. Directors Li-Kong Hsu and Chi Yin allow the story and performances to unfold deliberately and delicately. Homoerotic content is fairly minimal in the film, which focuses more on rich period detail and how the joys and sorrows of love can shape the course of personal histories.
Details
| Language: | Mandarin |
| Country: | Taiwan, China |
| Release date: | 15 October 2000 |
| Runtime: | 119 min |
Cast and Crew
as Wei Ying Er
as Hsu Shaodong
as Lin Chung
as Huang Zilei
