Junyang (Wu Chien-ho) and Peiying (Anicca Panna), the young couple at the film’s center, live in the kind of vast, grid-like high-rise, facing another vast, grid-like high-rise, that lends itsel...
It’s no spoiler to say this spy-versus-spy strategy leads them to Wu (Lee Kang-sheng), the sad-eyed, middle-aged man who lives with his elderly mother in the apartment opposite — since the...
As a fuller chronology of family life emerges, the intrusive gaze of a third party exposes just how little Junyang and Peiying have ever really observed each other. That Wu is played by Taiwanese lege...
“You just have to watch someone closely enough,” Zheng advises the couple, “and at some point, even if he’s not a criminal, he will turn into one.” Still, amid its consis...