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John HSU
Taiwan2008 26 min 35mm C Korean Premiere
A sci-fi fable about human relationships being formed over the Internet, aka the Anonymity Central, where codified IDs and conversations replace real identities. Now, a web-based chat room titled BDD Forum is faced with catastrophic threats from a hacker dubbed Intoxicant. As the threatened bomb explosion approaches, the chat room users are thrown into a commotion, while a man and a woman who met through the cyber community show interest in each other. For these modern lot who exist in the network devoid of traditional human relationship, with multiple identity, "what"s real" doesn"t hold any longer because the boundaries between the real and the fake become meaningless in the cyber space bombarded with instantaneous comments to one"s posting, online witch hunts, copying, pasting and sharing to create theme and variations. Intoxicant warns against the network-based relationship illusion which paralyzes humanity. (JANG Byung Won)
Born in Taipei, 1981. John HSU is currently studying in the MFA class for Filmmaking in Shih Hsin University. He won the Best Director Award at Golden Bell Award 2005 with his TV movie, Real Online.