The Great Buddha + Page #5

Synopsis: Pickle is a night security guard at a bronze statue factory. His colleague, Belly Bottom, works as a recycling collector during the day, and Pickle's biggest pleasure in life is flicking ...
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Hsin-yao Huang
  12 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
2017
102 min
190 Views


Kevin

Kevin

Kevin

What's that sound?

Weird

Why do we only hear your boss panting?

It's over?

There must be more

This

We haven't seen this yet

Isn't that here?

That's me

Stop watching

I said, stop watching

You always want to watch

Wasn't she from the other day?

standing in the field?

I'm

I'm heading out

Belly Button

Stay a little longer

Stay a little longer

Should we call the cops?

Did you forget your mother?

You want to lose your job?

F***

Don't you know

cops and courts are run by the rich?

That night

the two of them sat, terrified

Sitting there like idiots

Sitting until sunrise

As soon as it was light

Belly Button and Pickle rushed downtown

to find Brother Lin

Brother Lin is normally section manager

at a security company

But his other identity

is serving as the medium at a temple

The gods possess his body

What you see now

is the act of possession

The gods use spirit writing to help

the unfortunate

Basically,

of those who come with questions

one type is the rich and powerful

who are afraid of losing it all

The other type is the poor and powerless

whose hearts need relief

What you see now

is the gods' spirit writing

The interpreter on the side

reads out what the gods are writing

The words are called Luan

They are the gods' message to believers

But today, the only Luan

that Belly Button and Pickle received

was the gods telling them to be honest

respect one's parents

and be useful to one's country

Belly Button and Pickle

became more baffled, the more they saw

What you're about to see

is the complete Luan

Welcome

to the Homeland Safety Religious Center

Defend home and homeland

To exercise filial piety

is self-evident

Following the solar horoscope brings safety

Courage's blessing carries you

through the world

Belly Button visits Peanut each day

to pick up trash

As they talked

Peanut realized Belly Button and Pickle

had met a bad spirit

and needed to cleanse their fortunes

The first place he thought of

was his uncle's Chiang Kai-shek temple

Uncle

These two encountered a bad spirit

and came to cleanse their fortunes

They didn't say what it was

but Lord Chiang

should be able to help

You two

This temple only appears barren

My uncle purposely doesn't decorate

to promote sheer simplicity

It also expresses Lord Chiang's

integrity, pure as driven snow

People pray to Lord Chiang?

Goddamn

Even Pigsy has worshippers

Listen

This temple

after it was built 30 years ago

kept failing at divination

No gods would come here

One day

When my uncle was napping

Lord Chiang came to him in a dream

and told my uncle

I've got the time

I'm available

That's why

my uncle tends the temple

It's not easy

What does 'tend' mean?

He serves the gods

He serves the gods

Uncle

Want to help them cleanse their fortune?

These gods

sometimes they select certain people

Motherf***er

Don't know what he's up his own ass about

What's impressive about tending

a lousy-ass temple?

F***

Makes me feel sick

Mr. Huang, My apologies

Sorry for making you come all this way

Don't say that

I asked you here

mainly to understand

what happened with Miss Feng Ju Yeh

So

What happened to her?

Her family came to file a report

said she'd been missing almost a week

Now even her car's missing

I thought we'd ask a few of her friends

to come clarify the situation

When did you last speak on the phone?

I think she called me a week ago

How do you know her?

We're friends

Good friends?

I think so

What did you talk about on the phone

that day?

Nothing much

Just some random stuff

What random stuff?

As friends, we'd just talk on the phone

every once in a while

Oh, right

Last week she asked me about doing

some investing

It was just talk

It never amounts to much

That was the only thing you talked about?

Yeah

Why do I feel like it

wasn't the only thing?

What do you mean?

I looked at her call records

Miss Yeh called you

over one hundred times

Did she?

You should know better than anyone

You can't say because she called me

that I'm the one who has a problem

Mr. Huang

I never said you have a problem

A woman dials a man's phone

over 100 times

what could possibly be so urgent?

Did she call 100 times

to talk about investing?

I told you already

She called me to ask about investments

We also talked about

some unimportant trivial things

That was all

I've been honest with you

What now?

Why are we bringing Chairman Kevin

here now?

Deputy speaker, Sorry

Let me inform you of the situation

Our Chairman Kevin is an important figure

in society

He's done so many good deeds

He has the heart of a Buddha

You insult him by bringing him here

I'm sorry

What now?

Shun

What the hell did you bring

the chairman here for?

I invited Chairman Huang here to clarify

Miss Yeh's situation

I'm practically treating

him to a cup of tea

It's fine

Our Chairman Kevin contributes

money and energy to society

You see

if you're uneducated

he'll give you money to get educated

If you've got a funeral but no coffin

he'll buy you a coffin

You're insulting him

He's a man who, if he says it, he'll do it

That's what a good person he is

You're insulting him

Shun

Is chairman fine now?

It's fine

You can go if you want

Do what the hell you want

Then what the hell were you talking about?

He didn't mean it like that

Listen

I'm talking to you

and you keep replying to

the deputy commissioner

What are you trying to say?

Listen

if you f***ed around like this

out in society

the grass on your grave

would already be this high

Sorry

Show a little respect

Shun

Chairman can leave now, right?

Do what the hell you want

Like I said

What are you trying to say?

Nah, he didn't mean it like that

Unbelievable

What kind of attitude is that?

Sorry, no offense

So can we go now?

Yes, thank you

Show some respect, I'm telling you

Learn how to live in a society

Sorry

Motherf***er

You

get ready to be grilled

at next week's council meeting

Okay

Motherf***er

Unbelievable

Have a nice day, deputy speaker

Motherf***er

Sit down

Sit

How long have you worked for me?

Ten years

What did you do before you came here?

Temp jobs, here and there

Do I give enough salary?

It's enough

I haven't been in this room for years

The ceiling's leaking badly

Why didn't you tell me?

Is the A/C cool enough?

Haven't used it in a while

To be honest

I feel like you've been lazing around

without much work

Sometimes when you're at work

you sleep

and I don't want to disturb you

Your trash-picking friend often comes here

to chat

but I didn't complain

Pickle

Do I look like an idiot?

No

You think any sh*t you're up to here

I won't know about it?

You should know my personality

This is what I think

When dealing with human relations

if we're good, then we're good

if we're not good,

we need mutual understanding

Have you seen me like this before?

You've really never seen me like this?

By nodding your head, do you mean

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