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26 lines
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capsule : a science fiction allegory .
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at the millennium a lethal contagious virus has hit taiwan .
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officials have cut off water and other services to the center of contagion .
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life there devolves and degenerates .
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a man in an apartment has a hole in his floor and with it harasses his downstairs neighbor .
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a slow but harrowing film to be missed if possible .
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, low -1 ( -4 to +4 )
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- the taiwan virus is ravaging taiwan and the part of the city that is the center of the contagion has been evacuated of anyone who will go .
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one apartment building still houses people .
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a woman , formerly an office worker , ( yang kuei-mei ) is tormented by her upstairs neighbor ( lee kang-sheng ) who has a hole cut by a plumber in the floor and is using it as a drain .
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neighbor runs a small failing grocery store .
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- to make things more depressing , it is constantly raining hard .
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- upstairs neighbor vomits through , pours water , etc . a small and almost entirely one-sided war starts .
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allegory about callousness and selfishness .
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- woman is living on a pile of rolls of toilet tissue .
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- incongruous songs added to show downstairs neighbors dreams .
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these are the songs of popular taiwanese singer grace chang .
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- apartment is falling apart .
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wallpaper is separating from walls .
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plumbing is failing .
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- boredom shown by long cuts in which nothing happens .
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a lot of film seems to be used up .
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- this story might have been done much better as a ten-minute animated film .
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- stars are considered to be great dramatic actors by one reviewer .
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- this film seems longer at 95 minutes most two-hour films .
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