Arts and Culture

Review: Small Talk (日常對話)

Small Talk, directed by Huang Hui-Chen, is in many ways a remarkable film, but it is also an incredibly unsettling one. Small Talk is a highly personal film, as a documentary detailing Huang’s relation with her mother, Ah-Nu. In particular, Huang’s relation with her mother, who works as a Daoist priestess, is troubled because of Ah-Nu’s emotional distance, as well as that Ah-Nu, a lesbian, had two daughters from an abusive marriage...

「可是歌迷,我們再也買不起演唱會門票」… 幻夢一場的王菲年代

送走幾乎人人憎怨的 2016,2017 第一天的沈迷,卻是王菲在 Youtube 上的「一場幻夢」演唱會。雖被一堆毒舌批評走音或不穩,然而資深歌迷仍心醉不已,因為這樣不完美的聲線,更顯歲月的遞嬗。但,顯然王菲的演唱會已經不是女工,甚或我們這些前臉書時代的歌迷能夠負荷得起的奢侈品了。也許篤信佛教的王菲,藉這場「幻夢一場」的演唱會,告訴我們多少錢買到的門票,都是一場幻夢,有時金錢徒有虛名。一百年後沒有你也沒有我,何必在意到不到場呢?...