Tuesday, June 21, 2022

金錢男孩 (Moneyboys)

金錢男孩 (Moneyboys), dir. C.B. Yi, 2021, Taiwan/‌Austria/‌Belgium/‌France, 118m., in Mandarin Chinese with full English subtitles 🙄
Tuesday, June 21, 2022, 9:15pm Castro
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Fei leaves his poor, rural village to move to the big city, where he works as a “moneyboy,” a hustler/‌rentboy. He is first taken under the wing of Xiaolai, who does something breathtakingly stupid in a macho attempt to defend Fei’s honor. We then flash forward a few years, Fei has established himself, and another boy from the village tracks him down, wanting to learn the trade of turning tricks. Cut in some scenes of returning to the village, where he confronts his extended family’s rigidly traditional worldview.

The characters didn’t make sense to me, the sequence of events was sometimes very difficult to follow, and it was on the whole an unsatisfying experience. Not recommended.

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