Bu San [Goodbye, Dragon Inn]

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(c) ajmalouin 2006
(Rating: 3 by Al)
(2003—Ming-Liang—China) (1 hr 22. Currently not rated in the part of the world known as the USA.)

You’re definitely gonna have to rent this, as it is not a multiplex kind of film. It is however one of the funniest, most delightful films that Al has ever seen. It’s a totally wild-eyed dead-pan comedy that reminded Al of another of his absolutely favorite films of all time. (1)

The story? On an incredibly rainy urban Asian night, a Japanese tourist takes refuge from the weather inside a huge old movie theatre that is screening King Hu’s martial arts movie “Dragon Inn.” The movie house is cavernous, yet it is almost empty. You have, therefore, a monstrously large theatre screening a noisy martial arts film which is being viewed by 10-12 patrons.

The interaction of these patrons, and the movie-house staff, is Hilarious— in a dead-pan sort of way. Each scene in the film is locked down, subtle, and long to the point of being laughable.(2) In one scene, for instance, we are shown two men standing side by side at urinals. Beyond them is a line of 20 empty urinals. A third man enters the rest room— and stands right next to the other two men. All three of them stand there motionless before the locked down camera for what seems like five minutes. Then a fourth man comes in and reaches around the middle man to remove a package of cigarettes from the urinal shelf. The fourth man then goes to stand in front a washbasin while the other three men continue to stand motionless at the urinals. The scene finally ends 30-40 seconds later.

There are many other scenes in “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” that are just as funny. If you don’t think this type of cinematic language is hilarious, however, you are going to have a tough time watching this film, and it might even kill you, somehow. If it doesn’t kill you, however, it is Highly worth seeing.
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(1) That favorite would be Jim Jarmusch’s stunning “Stranger Than Paradise,” currently one of the “50 Films A.J. Would Watch Again.”
(2) We are reminded of the funny funny scene in one of The Marx Brothers movies wherein two lovers share a whispered conversation about their future plans. The two leave the locked-down scene, and the camera slowly moves in on a shrubbery that was behind them during their whispered conversation. The camera slowly moves in and in and in and — just when we expect to see a hidden eavesdropper on the conversation — the screen fades to black.