The movie is based on the 2014 Golden Horse Award shortlisted best short film The Big Buddha by Huang Xinyao. The plot is basically the same, it tells the story of Choi Po, who works as a security guard in a Buddha statue factory, peeping into the factory owner’s car recorder with his scavenging friend, Tua Cai, but accidentally discovers a murder case in which the factory owner murders his own mistress and hides her in a statue of the Big Buddha. At the end of the movie, as many disciples of Buddhism are worshipping the Big Buddha, the The movie ends with a banging sound coming from inside the Buddha statue.
“The life of the rich is really colorful.”
The movie is very straightforward to use color to divide the lives of different classes, and cleverly uses the car recorder as a carrier to present the colorful world in the eyes of Belly Cai and Choi Po, as well as the greed, hypocrisy, and sin of the powerful class in front of them, profoundly revealing the contradictions of social classes and the dark side of power.
2017 / Taiwan, China / Drama Comedy / Huang Xinyao / Zhuang Yizeng Chen Zhusheng
Choi Po (Chuang Yi-Zeng) is a night security guard at a sculpture factory, and has a seriously ill elderly mother at home to take care of.
Tua Cai (Chen Zhusheng) is Tua Po’s only friend, and Tua Po often calls Tua Cai over to keep him company during his night shifts.
One day, the two men decide to take a look at the images recorded on the car recorder of Choi Po’s boss, Wong Kai Man (Dai Li-Nin), in the hope that the ever-flirtatious boss can contribute some exciting footage to ease the loneliness of the two lonely men.
The images recorded by the car recorder do not disappoint Choi Po and Tsoi Choi, but at the same time, they also discover a lot of hidden secrets of Wong Kai Man.
In fact, every move of Choi Po and Toi Choi has not escaped the eyes of Wong Kai Man. In order to protect his position and reputation, he decides to take some necessary actions.
