![]() But the real show in this cinema - which is about to shut down - is on the periphery. You think you've walked into Hero by mistake in fact we're in a rundown Taipei cinema screening Dragon Inn, a 1966 martial arts classic by King Hu. ![]() Cheekily, Tsai kicks off with a blast of martial Chinese music and a booming voice-over exposition of military intrigues under the Ming Dynasty. ![]() Take Goodbye Dragon Inn, by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang, whose mastery of slowness becomes more perfect, and more playful, with each film. With Slow Cinema, people often complain there's nothing to see: in fact, while commercial films constantly scream "Look! Look!" at you, this other variety allows you the time and space to see for yourself, and the content often proves inexhaustible. In fact, Slow Cinema operates according to a language of its own which simply can't be compared to the way conventional films cram in information. Of course, it does such cinema a disservice to suggest that it's simply an antidote to Fast Films, a temporary detox after which you can go back to gorging on indiscriminate visual fry-ups. It's surprising that no one has yet tried to market films in line with this new zeitgeist and promote Slow Cinema.
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