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4891 [2013]
Available digitallyHU_OSA_00004999
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4891
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English
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Taiwan, 2013.
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DVD-ROM (58 min.)
Contents Summary
The film is a modern metaphor to George Orwell's “1984”: Surveillance cameras are everywhere on the streets, coldly recording everything. In the pre-dawn hours, a forlorn street cat, a lost pet dog with a reward out for his return, a vagrant sleeping on the pavement, and a prostitute standing at the roadside looking for a john are accompanied by the morning chants of a nearby Buddhist temple, together composing a “Song of the Wanderers.” Among them are a disabled person rejected by his family, an elderly woman abandoned by her children, and homeless people with nowhere to go. People pass by without seeing them, police cite and release them over and over, politicians make hay out of issues, and poor people keep exploiting other poor people by playing the lottery. Although the surveillance and control is milder than that depicted in Orwell’s 1984, in essence it is equivalent as it allows those in power to do whatever they want while facilitating a plethora of fines. Ultimately, society’s regression and weakened national competitiveness harm the average person.
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Verzio Film Festival Submission
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Verzio Film Festival Submission
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4891 [2013]
Available digitallyHU_OSA_00004999
MovingImageIconMoving Image
General Information
Director/Creator
General Information
Original Title
4891
General Information
Language
General Information
Language of Subtitles
English
General Information
Published
Taiwan, 2013.
General Information
Physical Description
DVD-ROM (58 min.)
Contents Summary
The film is a modern metaphor to George Orwell's “1984”: Surveillance cameras are everywhere on the streets, coldly recording everything. In the pre-dawn hours, a forlorn street cat, a lost pet dog with a reward out for his return, a vagrant sleeping on the pavement, and a prostitute standing at the roadside looking for a john are accompanied by the morning chants of a nearby Buddhist temple, together composing a “Song of the Wanderers.” Among them are a disabled person rejected by his family, an elderly woman abandoned by her children, and homeless people with nowhere to go. People pass by without seeing them, police cite and release them over and over, politicians make hay out of issues, and poor people keep exploiting other poor people by playing the lottery. Although the surveillance and control is milder than that depicted in Orwell’s 1984, in essence it is equivalent as it allows those in power to do whatever they want while facilitating a plethora of fines. Ultimately, society’s regression and weakened national competitiveness harm the average person.
Subjects
Bibliographic Information
Note
Verzio Film Festival Submission
Bibliographic Information
Library Special Collection
Verzio Film Festival Submission
Holdings
DVD
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DVD
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OSA Film Library
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OSA Film Library
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Digital Film