From the comical opening sequence of Edward Yang’s newly restored 1991 masterwork, A Brighter Summer Day, set in 1960s Taipei: two boys, including the main character S’ir, spy from the scaffolding of a low rent film studio adjacent to their school and catch a glimpse of an actress changing before one of them drops a book, attracting the angry attention of the director below. A humorous instance of adolescent innocence, this scene also anticipates a theme of the protagonist’s understanding, and interaction with, reality.
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