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Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.
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"I hate to say it, since I liked The Assassin, Millennium Mambo, and (especially) A City of Sadness, but The Puppetmaster is sort of a misfire by Hsiao-Hsien Hou's standards. He makes a biopic of sorts that also sometimes feels like a documentary, since the central figure gives interviews throughout the film, but the scenes between these interviews are so lifeless. There might be some point being made with the approach here, but it just feels borderline disrespectful to have Li Tian-lu tell a story about his past coherently and compellingly, and then for it to cut to (sometimes cutting the..."
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Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.