Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we got a fun one. It's a little bit of a roller coaster, if you will.

We're talking about Tsai Min Liang, the director of straight dog-da-da-da-da-dogs.

Yeah, it's like a roller coaster where the challenge is, like, can you stay on the ride when it's not moving?

Yeah, and you're looking around going, am I supposed to get off? Is this part of the ride?

You were a fan of Tsai Ming Lang, right?

Yes, I was a fan, and after this week, believe it or not, I am even more of a fan of Siaming Lang, although I will say that his movies are not meant to be watched back to back to back.

He's an intimidating filmmaker.

When you talk about slow cinema, he's standing with his arms crossed and a big smile on his face going, I'm the final boss. Come at me.

The thing about his movies is, it's not about how boring they are. Will, you've said things as,

you know, there's different flavors of boring. My issue with his film was sitting down and watching

them is I found it's very difficult to stay awake at times.

Oh, I had that exact same experience this week. These movies definitely benefit from being seen in a theatrical context, you know, when you're in a theater and you can't leave.

I would still fall asleep. Like the screen is gigantic and the sound is all around you and you can kind of become immersed in it.

But certain things are lost at home.

You know, there are distractions.

You are more likely to split it over a couple of nights, which happened to me a few times simply because I would fall asleep watching some of these movies.

So like that sense of momentum can be lost when you're watching that at home.

But there's still plenty to enjoy and appreciate when you watch them at home.

That's the thing that people need to understand when you're approaching this filmmaker,

is that his films are slow, they're very beautiful, they're also opaque,

and the viewer is demanded to project their own interpretation at times.

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