英文摘要 |
This article considers the so-called Obsession with Taiwan complex attributed to director Wei Te-Sheng, by examining two of his movies, The Warriors of Rainbow and KANO. I argue that Wei Te-Sheng uses basic degree zero narration strategies to elaborate the Taiwanese characters’ resistance posture as a key part of the “Taiwan Consciousness.” In The Warriors of Rainbow, he presents the radical dimension of the Taiwan Consciousness, while in KANO he depicts it as a way of compromise. However, the colonialism super narrative—within which Japanese figures are in command—reveals a sharp contradiction with the independent dimension of the aforementioned Taiwan Consciousness. What’s more, Wei’s obsession with Taiwan in these two films is limited only to the characters’ nationalist efforts but not his modernist depictions of individuals. |