Filming with a puckishly bland interview-style fixed camera and sarcastic cityscapes, Ying convincingly depicts a state of repressed volatility which, when it blows, does so with a far-reaching, vitriolic, righteous audacity that has few parallels in the modern cinema.
Interestingly, amid the Olympics hubbub, this aim has been obscured even as a significant overture--Ma Ying-jeou's election as president--came from Taiwan's side.
More alarming is Liu Tai-ying, a legislator and presidential adviser, who has said that if China attacks, then Taiwan should fire missiles into the sea near Hong Kong, to spark a panic in China's financial centre.