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Taiwan
The Last Painting
自畫像
SAT. 28.JUL 13:30
Director：陳宏一 Hung I Chen
2014 │TAIWAN│OmeU│108min│
Award
Best Film, 10th Cines del Sur 第10屆西班牙南方影展最佳影片大獎
Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival 洛杉磯華語電影節「獨立精神獎」
Nomination
Big Screen Award, 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam 入選第46屆鹿特丹國際影展「大銀幕獎」
On the day of the Taiwanese presidential election, a third-year university student Chieh is found dead in her rented flat. Her naked body is covered with oil paint while her beautiful eyes are dug out by a sharp tool. All the evidence suggests that her flatmate Ze and confidant Nana are the prime suspects. Why did Chieh get killed? Who on earth killed her?
台灣總統選舉投票當日，政治系大三女生楊婕被發現陳屍租屋處，她赤裸的身體被塗滿油彩，美麗的眼睛則遭利器刨出…。種種跡象顯示，她的畫家室友江中澤和閨蜜訥訥涉有重嫌…。
楊婕為什麼會死？究竟是誰殺了她？一樁命案揭開了這社會的真實面貌，活在激情和慾望下的，則是這時代裡躁動不安的靈魂…。
The Last Painting participated in the 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the Best Film Awards in the 10th Cines del Sur, an international film festival in Granada in Spain, and the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival. Meanwhile, it was also broadcasted as the opening film in 2017 Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival. The film tells a different story regarding the politics and gender issues, reflecting the contradiction between the beauty and ugliness of human nature.
The Last Painting starts at the time before Taiwan’s presidential elections in 2016. During the time, it is easy to sense the atmosphere of political manipulation in every household, road, and lane. The boom of the Sunflower Student Movement, a social movement in Taiwan for protesting the passing of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) by the legislation department without clause by clause review, recedes. Meanwhile, the participating activists, who have found themselves during the process of the movement and in art and music, return to their regular lives. The main actress, a politics student, is one of the activists and tries to alter the unfair situations in Taiwan society after the movement. However, rather than confronting the world, it turns out that these teenagers discover more about themselves, especially the ugly desire.
Starting with the seven deadly sins in Christian religions, The Last Painting shows the pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth of people. Nevertheless, are these sins or simply human nature? The director, Chen Hung-I, has a unique interpretation of truth. The film presents the ugly sides of sex and love, which coexist with the beauty of human nature even after our hopes are destroyed.
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入選第46屆鹿特丹國際影展「大銀幕獎」（Big Screen Award）、獲得第10屆西班牙南方影展最佳影片大獎、洛杉磯華語電影節「獨立精神獎」，並在2017年金馬奇幻影展開幕片上映。《自畫像》在政治與性別的路上走得離經叛道，在人性與慾望之間拉扯毫不留情，你又曾有誠實坦率面對過自己？當唯一信奉的價值觀被擊潰，什麼才是你急於緊抓不放的求生意志？
《自畫像》的背景設定在2016年總統大選前的台灣，在街頭巷尾蘊含著政治操弄的氣息，轟動一時的太陽花學運熱潮已退，「後太陽花時代」的人們煙消雲散，那些藉由社會運動、藝術、音樂找到自我價值的「憤青」，回到自己人生的道路，與片中女主角（政治系學生）一起揭開真實世界的醜陋樣貌；然而「自我」與「世界」從來都不是對立的，比起對抗世界，他們更不斷揭發「自己」，那隱藏內心猥瑣不堪但卻永遠真摯的慾望。
以七宗罪破題，《自畫像》帶入基督教教義中對人類惡行的分類：傲慢、貪婪、色慾、嫉妒、暴食、憤怒及怠惰，而這些又何嘗是罪？陳宏一導演的作品總是圍繞在「真實」，但真實又是對誰的真實？性與愛的直接裸露，希望幻滅但仍舊有美的事物共存。
這是一幅我的，也是你的《自畫像》。