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Tsai Ming-Liang

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Through “Rebels of a Neon God,” Tsai Ming-liang demonstrates how life is never fully satisfied but people endlessly try to fulfill their goals as if they were the ultimate goals. The road at the end of the movie metaphorically represents struggles in lives while cars represent each of us. Every car tries to reach the destination but never does. The mind or the driver of each car- constrained in what it steers- pushes the car into different directions, and never knows how other cars will affect it. The mother and the father of the main character, Hsiao Kang, send him to a tutor school presumably in the hope that Kang will have a better career than they do. They both take care of his physical body but Hsiao Kang does not seem to feel full. Kang
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