In 2017, Yang Yazhe's "Blood Guanyin" won the Golden Horse Best Drama Award, and Hui Yinghong and Wen Qi won best actress and best supporting actress respectively for their roles in this movie.
Now, he's shot again, bringing this one—
The Magician on the Flyover
In order to make more money, his mother always let him go to the overpass to sell insoles at the overpass when he was out of class.
Don't look at his young age, but he has learned the shrewdness of his mother's businessman thoroughly.
What "thousands of mountains and rivers come to you", "pig skin, sheepskin, crocodile skin"...
The marketing tactics that these mothers always use when selling leather shoes are skillfully used by Xiao Bu.
When encountering a small couple, the insole of 200 three pairs instantly becomes 240 pairs, buy two get one free, seemingly discounted, but actually increase the price.
Take out the usual phrase "Brother pad this insole, thousands of mountains and rivers come to your side" .
In a sweet tone, I threw my sister to buy: "Brother don't buy, give (let) your sister buy, it's your sister's love for you."
Lovers who are in love listen to such words, even if there is no reason not to buy, they willingly take out their wallets.
Selling the insoles is not enough, wait until you need to find change and have to pretend to be pitiful and pit again.
In addition to setting up a stall, such a "bear child" does some strange things with two friends at other times.
For example, selling magic props.
Next door to the small stall is a mysterious magician with a disheveled face.
In the eyes of a child, he is an omnipotent magician, and in the eyes of adults he is a trickster.
No one knew where he came from, and most of the time he didn't say a word, just sat silently on the overpass and watched the pedestrians pass by.
In his stalls were all kinds of magic props, the most attractive of which was the little black man folded in black paper.
Little blacks can dance under the control of magicians and can imitate human movements.
In order to get the magician's "true biography", Xiao Budi bought the little black man and used his small head of "good use for business" to shake the classmates to buy the little black man with pocket money.
However, the method of manipulating the little black man was not learned, but after being discovered by the parents, he had to be beaten.
Another example is running to the toilet at twelve o'clock in the morning.
Between them, there is a legend about the 99th floor.
The mall only has 8 floors, there is no 99th floor, the entrance to the 99th floor is the innermost compartment of the toilet on the second floor, the compartment door is painted with the elevator button of the 99th floor, as long as you comb your hair in the mirror in the compartment at 12 o'clock at night, you can cross to the 99th floor.
On the 99th floor, there are things that I once had but disappeared.
The son of the shop next door cut off his father's ear and hid in the compartment with his ear, but disappeared, and the other children speculated that he had escaped to the 99th floor to play free electric.
The place where you can get electric for free is undoubtedly paradise for small children, and the three children are impressed, and they sneak into the toilet cubicle one night with their parents on their backs with combs and mirrors.
Without combing a few times, there was an eerie crying sound, and the three children snatched the door and fled.
After this incident, they were so frightened that they lost their souls and had to be taken to the temple to pray to the gods and worship the Buddha to drive away evil spirits.
But they quickly forgot about this horrific memory and embarked on a new "adventure."
In order to let her mother buy herself a Nintendo game console, firmly believe that "the sick people are the biggest", they do not hesitate to use the bitter meat meter and paint white flower oil on their chickens to pretend to be pitiful.
The so-called reluctance to chicken, can not set the machine.
Obviously, they are still young and do not yet know the seriousness of this matter.
White flower oil was applied to the skin, it was a fiery pain, they were quickly sent to the hospital, the solution was to cut the foreskin.....
It's just that the bitter meat meter failed, and the chicken was abandoned, and the machine was not put on.
Similar to "Blood Guanyin", Director Yang also added some fantasy elements and some metaphors to this drama.
In the eyes of children, the adults transformed into animals.
When Xiao Budian goes to the toilet late at night, he will see a glowing zebra emitting brilliant colors.
This zebra is the magician that Little One saw on the overpass.
While Agay sleepwalks, he enters the stone lion and controls it to walk.
The stone lion parades around in the dead of night, observing the nightly secrets of each family.
Through the magician's crystal ball, Apai sees that the supreme yuan of the tailor shop owner is a cat, and a flower cat in the shop transforms into a human form one night to help him get the cloth.
The news images shown at the opening credits the context of that era, which was during the martial law period in Taiwan.
The twins' father runs a bookstore in the China Mall, secretly printing progressive poetry collections and sneaking them out late at night.
People can only close the door, lower the volume, and sneak up on the fun.
Children made their own jokes, which were widely circulated among their classmates.
Because the image of a great man was used in the school magazine, the teacher punished them for cleaning up the posters on the campus, and then found the parents and educated the parents.
These are all on the side to show the depression of people's lives in that era.
The legend on the 99th floor is fake, and so is the magician's magic, but for those who live in Taipei, the memories of The China Mall are true.
The Zhonghua Mall in the story is a real place, a memory that belongs exclusively to the people of Taipei in the last century.
The mall, then known as Taipei's largest mall, was built in 1961 and demolished in 1992.
It is made up of eight three-storey buildings connected by a clear division of eight buildings, and the overpass connecting the mall is the overpass.
It is home to vendors from all over the world, who sell different categories of goods, who open shops here and live here.
Where there are many people, there will be stories, and although the magician runs through the whole play, the protagonists are still people in the China Mall.
In addition to the small naughty stories, there are also the hazy feelings between Ah Pai and Ah Monkey, and the fantastic experience of Ah Gai sleepwalking around in the middle of the night... These intersect with magicians.
Borrowing a magician, it tells the story of the sentient beings of that era, and it is the unforgettable memory of that era.