I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Ws Sub)
by Tsai Ming-Liang
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Actor: Atun Normani, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lee Kang-Sheng, Norman Bin Atun, Pearlly ChuaDirector: Tsai Ming-Liang
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Cantonese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Strand Releasing
DVD Reviews of I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Ws Sub)
DVD Review: It sould be call the mattress
Summary: 2 Stars
They spend so much time of the film moving a mattress to one place to the other, it is a slow and dull film, dont bother, rent it if You really want to see it. only recomended for those who want to experiment asian films.DVD Review: dull, tedious art film
Summary: 2 Stars
Tsai Ming Liang's "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" is yet another of those Spartan-like, minimalist Asian films (this one happens to be Chinese) that is composed almost entirely of single-take medium and long shots (this movie would have made Andre Bazin and his fellow theorists at Cahiers du Cinema jump for joy, or, at the very least, purr with contentment). The problem with such a style, beyond testing the patience of the audience, is that it distances us so much from what is happening on screen that we soon become dispassionate observers rather than the engaged participants we need to be if we are to become fully enveloped in the story. In fact, most of the time we can't figure out who anybody is or why we should be interested in anything that is going on in their lives. If this movie proves anything, it is just how essential close-ups and inter-scene cutting can be in helping us to identify with and care about a character and the situation he's going through.
As far as I can tell, the theme is about a handful of urban youth who feel isolated and alienated from one another and the world around them, but who are taking some faltering steps towards reaching out and bridging that gap, mainly through touching. But the almost total lack of dialogue and the chillingly clinical style of filmmaking make it frankly impossible for us to tell WHAT the moviemakers' intentions might be.
There are a few erotically-charged moments in the film, but overall "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" is an excursion into tedium that gives "art films" a bad name.
DVD Review: gentle colors.....
Summary: 5 Stars
I love how this film portrays Kuala Lumpur. I enjoy the quietness and the subtle air that linger over this film. It is very arty farty, but if you have patience(or if like me, you're in mood to watch some so-called art films), this would somehow suits you, i would think. A gem.DVD Review: Buddhism is love beyond sex, empathy beyond compassion
Summary: 5 Stars
This Chinese Taiwanese film is depicting the life of young people in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. It is showing one of these tigers of Asia in their development at a crucial moment when things seem to be halted and yet they go on maybe just at a slower pace. But people remain what they are, people with human values. They will help a man who had fainted on the sidewalk. They will wash him, feed him, take care of him just as if he was one of the family, though he is unknown. They will take care of a man who is absolutely reduced to a vegetable state, unresponsive, and yet there, alive even if totally blank. And then the impulses of the women or of the men are the same as everywhere in the world, and yet what these young people really want is not that instantaneous and futureless of not futile moment of bliss. They want to be close to someone else, feeling his or her heart and blood pressure and emotions and sentiments and heat, share that feeling and just sleep into it, dream into it. Let's go beyond this world of imperfection and never satisfied failure or success, it does not matter. Let's get into the deep mellowness of empathy, sympathy, compassion, sharing and gathering our minds and all our senses into some kind of communion that is one step closer to the path to enlightenment. That's what at least the Buddha in the caf? tells me, though we see him from the back and Buddhism is only second to Islam in Malaysia, but the two religions have that thing in common that the mind and the heart are only one same thing and they are the only guides that can take us to a higher more humane level of humanity. And that is all contained in that big mattress they find on the sidewalk and they transport together from one place to another with only one intention, to share it, to use it together. A mattress as a symbol of the Buddhist Dukkha, that never ending cycle from birth to rebirth and every time some people abandon the mattress, it dies, but then some other people come and give it a new life through a rebirth of love.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
DVD Review: Love Triangle from Malysia
Summary: 4 Stars
"I Don't Want to Sleep Alone"
Love Triangle from Malaysia
Amos Lassen
"I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" (Strand Releasing) is about an erotic love triangle between a young drifter, an immigrant worker and a nurse. Having premiered at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, the film has opened to great critical acclaim. The story line tersely put is about how three people find each other on the streets of Kuala Lampur but that is a bit too simple.
Hsiao Kang, a homeless youth, is robbed, beaten and left for dead but h is found by Rawang, an immigrant worker. Rawang lives in part of a modern building that has been abandoned during construction. We do not know if Rawang has sexual feelings for his patient but Chyi, a waitress in a shabby coffee shop is anxious to have Rawang become the true object of her affection. The relationship between the three characters is pervasive throughout the film and the movie is erotic and sensual as well as quite funny.
Surprisingly the movie deals with the social exclusion of the lower class. There is only one character in the entire film that has money but she cannot rise above her class yet the focus on the classes is really not what the director, Tsai Ming-Liang wanted to do. It just happened as the movie was being made.
The movie gives us a look at Malaysia in a whole new way and presents a picture of society of which many of us were not aware.
Description of I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Ws Sub)
Homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao Kang is robbed, beaten and left for dead; he is found and nursed by Rawang, an immigrant worker, who lives in the shell of a modernist building abandoned during construction. Rawang's feelings for his patient may or may not be sexual, but there's definitely something like lust in the eyes of Chyi, a waitress in a run-down old coffee shop, when they light upon the recovering Hsiao Kang. And so a triangle forms as a blanket of noxious fog settles on the city and everyone has trouble breathing. Simultaneously erotic and comical, the film underpins director Tsai's deadpan allegory with hints of social realism.I DON T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE was one of seven films commissioned for the Weiner Mozart New Crowned Hope Festival, Vienna 2006.
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