In 2007, the video poem was an experimental and challenging cross-border attempt. Five cutting-edge directors from Taiwan Province Province who had attracted the attention of major film festivals at home and abroad cooperated with the poet to express the artistic conception of the poem in about ten minutes. Among them, Finding Friends along the Coast describes the problem of homosexuality and shows the lust of gay men. Chen Junzhi, a gay director who has been out for more than ten years, chose the poem of a doctor and poet whale going to sea as the starting point, interwoven with the famous modernist classic poem The Waste Land, and asked Shao, the author of the gay pure love novel The Story of a Pure Man, to be a screenwriter and write an original script.
The title of the film "Searching for Friends along the Coast" comes from a poem "Searching for Friends" in his first book of poetry "Wanted Man", which reads: "Searching for friends along the coast tonight-you have come with your edge-I will leave. The text of the film's breakthrough is adapted from the poems of Whales Return to the Sea, Wanted Man and Mental Hospital.
Handsome young people in the film shake their heads and face as the gorgeous background of the story, which is different from the realistic style of previous documentaries. The director tells a fragile and sad gay love story with a three-stage plot.
Chen Junzhi's 2007 video poem "Looking for Friends along the Coast" ※
According to the poems of Whales Return to the Sea, Wanted Man and Mental Hospital.
Shao, author of original novels and breakthrough scripts
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We lay in bed.
Fell asleep in swimming trunks and frog glasses.
I don't know which port I will wake up in tomorrow.
-"The Wanted" and "The Flood"
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Xiaohai knows that his body is the best advertisement for friends.
Sunshine bodybuilding, invincible youth.
With a look of show-off and pride,
Then walk in slowly. He lost something, but didn't know what to look for.
── (unknown)
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The smallest typhoon in decades
Maximum rainfall
After we went to the south,
Trapped in a lonely hotel
-"The Wanted" and "The Flood"
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You sit on the edge of the bed like a fog and lean against the window.
The young man was topless.
Like a crater where magma flows.
Is destroying the city.
-The poem "Desire"
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Today, I am looking for friends along the coastline.
You come from the front.
I'm leaving in pieces-the wanted man (begging for a friend)
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He wants to wake up before too many people wake up,
Go where you can see the sea.
If you are sick, you should naturally go to see a doctor.
Why must it be the sea,
No one who went can answer this question.
── (unknown)
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"After the disaster,
All the people gathered at the seaside to watch the sea.
Some people think of fish,
Some people are fish themselves. 」
-"The Wanted" and "The Flood"
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