Help Me Eros
Help Me, Eros traditional Chinese is the second film from director Lee Kangsheng, following his directorial debut in 2003, The Missing.
The literal translation of the Taiwanese title is Help Me, God of Love, since Eros is an artifact of GreeceRoman mythology. The exclamation is a wry reference to the films comically cynical perspective on human relationships, in which a wide variety of unlikely subjects food, marijuana and live eels, amongst others become substitute objects of comfort and affection for the protagonists. The plea for help is also a strong theme in the form of the suicide hotline.The film is set in modern Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The infamous opening sequence depicts the protagonist lying on the designer sofa in his apartment watching a cookery segment on his TV, in which a carp is swiftly scaled, gutted, cooked and served alive, its mouth still slowly opening and closing. ........
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