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‘Mongrel’ Review: Superbly Controlled And Paced Taiwanese Drama Bears Witness To One Of The Great Crimes Of Our Time – Cannes Film Festival
Director Chiang Wei Liang's Mongrel superbly controlled, paced and pictorially constructed.
“Don’t you trust me?” It’s a routine question from the man they call Boss, a ruthless character operating at the lower levels of the immigrant trade in Taiwan, adopted home of director Chiang Wei Liang. Chiang is unafraid of long silences, uninterested in explanations – we are left to piece together for ourselves how these people came to be sequestered in the mountainous Taiwanese interior – and comfortable with darkness. As a door opens, we see green trees where before there was only rain; the mountain weather is generally a dismal combination of tropical downpours and freezing temperatures.
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