A fake kidnapping to rig an election? What could go wrong? EVERYTHING.
Mayor Guo of Wanhe City was seeking re-election but got kidnapped a few days before election day by a young man from the poor and seriously polluted area of the city. It was a scheme plotted by a local petrochemical company hoping to ensure Guo’s victory in the election so that their expansion application could be approve. However, this false kidnapping goes wrong, and soon everything is out of control.
Acting
Ray Chang's desperate everyman energy is uncomfortably real.
Writing
Plot twists that actually twist—rare in 80 minutes.
Director
David Chuang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film satirizes Taiwan's real struggles with petrochemical pollution in rural townships, where jobs and poison often come from the same source.
Director David Chuang shot this in under 20 days with a shoestring budget, which explains the raw urgency that actually serves the story's desperation.
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