Seated In Action

In this episode, Ryan and Andrew discuss a compilation film called Ten Years. The film is split into five distinct chapters, all of which were written and directed by different auteur Hong Kongese directors. The first episode, Extras, follows two characters (an immigrant from India and a middle-aged failed-Triad) who are caught in a plot to instigate a false flag attack on two public officials; the second episode, Season of the End, explores anthropological taxidermy and the razing of houses at the behest of an ever-encroaching authoritarian government; the third, Dialect, chronicles the day in the life of a Cantonese-speaking taxi-driver who is marginalized due to his inability to speak Madarin (Putonghua) fluently; the fourth episode, Self-Immolator, mixes genres in order to tell a sort of whodunit story about an unknown person who sets themselves ablaze in front of the British consulate; and, finally, the fifth episode, Local Egg, tells the story of Uncle Sam, a Hong Kongese grocer, who seeks to run his sh