Parking

After watching "Parking", I received this message asking me to apologize for recommending the film. Even though it gathers absolutely the best of mid age Taiwanese actors, the film itself is a bit average. The project is ambitious: attempting to portray a synecdoche of society through Zhang Zhen's brief encounter with several strangers on his way home. The cinematography is great, after all the director has years of experience directing music videos and documentary. Sadly, the story has some fundamental problems, mainly, there's not enough "force" to push the story forward. Many times during the film, the character's action becomes so unexplainable due to this lack of logic. And the seemingly hopeful ending, where Zhang Zhen's character takes revenge on the pimp, in the action sets the prostitute free and then adopts the little girl, is a little disconnected from the rest of the film. We don't know exactly which part of the night leads him to make such a decision. Overall the film has a 7.3 out of 10 on Douban.com. I'll probably give it a 5.5.