‘Midnight Tod’ Portrays an Inner Rebellion Between Flashes of Light

2019 Women Make Waves Film Festival Taiwan

The Ne5ws Lens
Date: 2019/10/04
By: Chen Si-yu

Midnight nurtures chaos, human desires, crimes, and evil roots. Unarming one’s protective mask, midnight reveals the kind of good and evil that’s much closer to the true self.

There’s no better time than midnight to stage a wild act roaring against the world.

Midnight Tod (2019) opens with a scene of robbery and cuts immediately to Hao (Yu Shen-hung) who’s riding the bus alone. Having just been fired from the hair salon, Hao takes all his belongings and moves in with Tod (Chang Chih-han), whom he had only met once before. Tod, although annoyed at Hao’s unreasonable move, allows him to stay and the two develop an unexpected relationship.

"If you can have sex with a dog, which breed would you choose? Husky or Golden Retriever?"

When Director Wang Yi-ling was still a film student, her short film Towards the Sun (2016) was shortlisted for Cannes Film Festival’s student competition Cinéfondation. Wang is not unfamiliar with perfecting the chemistry between two intimate characters in her previous film. She again crafts a similar duo dynamic in Midnight Tod with two main characters who have different personalities but share similar fates: The rash, rebellious Hao and the soft-spoken painter Tao are both deeply discontent with life.    [FULL  STORY]