For the first time, Pentiment made the word “history” feel alive with emotion. She is the ship of Theseus, endlessly taken apart and rebuilt, but more passionate; she is Jesus, …
The film leaves me with a feeling of something vast and small at once. People from every corner of mainland China pour into postwar Taiwan. A society adrift breeds teenage …
After watching the film, I still couldn’t see the back of my own head. But at least I’d seen the backs of a few other people’s. I seemed to know a little more, and to have a little …