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Original Title: 恐怖分子
Director: Edward Yang
Country: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
Runtime: 110 min
Rating: PG

Awards

Best Feature Film
1986 GOLDEN HORSE AWARDS

Silver Leopard
1987 LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Best Screenplay (Edward Yang, Hsiao Yeh)
1987 ASIA-PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL

Synopsis

“The most exciting aspect of Terrorizers is Wang An’s real-life experience of making prank calls. Since the story revolves around this, there must be a married couple and a mother. This is a logical development, like a puzzle game. However, I later decided that the characters should be unrelated. After the intertwining of storylines, their lives are completely transformed. This was the initial creative motivation, so in the end, the film is a resolution of this premise.” —Edward Yang

Yu-feng and Li-zhong’s marriage is on the rocks, with tensions heightened as Yu-feng, a writer, faces a creative block, while Li-zhong is hoping for a promotion. A teenage girl’s prank calls become the subject of Yu-feng’s novel enabling it to become an award-winning work. The film constructs multidimensional contexts through precise audiovisual deployment, depicting loneliness, deceit, and violence in modern society, generating layered meanings while liberating the confines of film narration.

Adapted original text from © Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute

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