［导演］ 周美玲
［主演］ 陈煜明 钟以庆 王学仁 王明璋
［上映］ 2004-12-4 0:00:00
［类型］ 剧情 爱情 家庭
［地区］ 台湾
［对白］ 普通话
［颜色］ 彩色
［声音］
［时长］ Hong Kong:73 min
［分级］

　　At night, he is a drag-queen;
　　in reality, he is a Taoist priest.
　　The most traditional occupation and the most untraditional love.
　　converged in-between the death of lover and the ritual of calling his soul home.
　　The most vernacular splendour and the most splendid queer world,
　　exotic and warm; absurd but sincere.
　　This is a love film in/out the liminality of life and death.

Rose, as you have seen above, a taoist priest in the day and a drag queen at night.

At night, Rose dresses up in womanly garb on a brightly decorated truck with other drag queens and performs at different locations for the male audience who cheers her on. She would later get to know a man, Sunny whom she borrowed a hose from and who later courted her. They spent a night together entangled in each other’s arms.

The next morning, Sunny left her.

As if fate would have it to complete the desolation Rose felt, Sunny drowned while swimming in the sea. And ’she’ was the taoist priest assigned to serve the ritual rite of “soul-calling” and Rose was visibly more upset than Sunny’s family members.

The most poignant scene in the movie being when Rose threw the “sacred pairs” (a pair of wooden tool in a shape of used in the traditional rituals in Taiwan) to request Sunny’s permission to bring his memorial tablet home: “Will you go with me?” asked Rose. For times, the way the sacred pairs shows is negative. Rose asks again with anger and sadness, “ So, you really wanna leave me…?” and throws once more. He gets his permission this time but was the “Yes” meant for the former question or the later question leaves to be desired.

Now the memorial tablet adorns the dressing table of the “Splendid Float”. A funeral procession is carried out for Sunny at his tomb in the cemetery. When the funeral procession left, the splendid float came alive and gives forth splendour and brilliance all over around. Cross-dressing sisters are all standing by to show up. “Mic test, mic test, mic test…….. Splendid Float is going to lead you in the eternal heaven.”

On the high way along sea-shore, this splendid float full of coquettish drag queens speeds over at night. Wherever this float passes by, “underworld papers” fly to the sea. Every boat on the sea and every light on the road have witnessed the eternality of the past love in memory.

It’s getting bright at dawn. The very first sunlight shines on the tomb of Sunny. Rose decides to greet the sunshine in the morning by throwing Sunny’s yellow shirt which she has always worn to the sea. The splendid float leaves but merry singing stays, “Beautiful moment, splendid life and wonderful love make one moved…”