THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Film screening of Dangerous Youth (1969),followed by discussion with Dr. Chun-chi Wang 王君琦,Director of Taiwan Film Institute
Moderated by: Ying Qian, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Dangerous Youth 危險的青春 (1969, dir. HSIN Chi 辛奇, 95min)
Featuring a love triangle between a prostitute, a pimp, and a procuress, Dangerous Youth is perhaps the most confrontational and yet stylistic of all Taiwanese-dialect films in its depiction of a morally corrupt capitalist society. In the film,one's own body can be easily sold in exchange for money, while pleasure is bought and replaced at a fast pace. Save for the much harried and harassed female protagonist, each character is driven by his or her own impulses and implicated in a larger web of machination one way or another. Using a speeding motorbike as the central metaphor for a youth in distress, the film's unflinching look at carnal desire and its new wave aesthetic establishes it as a pioneer of Taiwan's youth films.
