1987
銀獅獎、最佳男主角
Period of Martial Law began in 1949 and lingered in Taiwan for nearly 40 years. While maintaining the overall situation, legal, political, and military forces have also left indelible scars in society. Martial law was lifted in 1987, but the scars will not recover automatically. We should always look back and remember how those painful memories led us to freedom. Taking this as a theme, we selected four Taiwanese films to describe the suffering and impact of Martial Law. Also, the classic Blind Chance by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski was chosen to present how human beings are at a loss for fate under the cross-national totalitarian rule.
Within a life ever tightening in length, we move with faltering steps, seeking space continually crushed by reality. Life races past like a hastily drawn 2D sketch, and existence seems reduced to endless trades of bargaining chips. Only when utterly exhausted do we pause, sighing at the passage of time and life. Some call upon companions; others walk alone. The journey becomes a deviation from the norm—a path that, though unconventional, brings peace. Even if we cannot cast everything aside without hesitation, we still dance unrestrained in memory, in separation, in life and death, gazing upon the fleeting radiance within and beyond the cinematic frame.