It's also worth mentioning that this is a musical. And they laugh, and they love, and the film swerves back and forth between their two perspectives, meeting in an occasional musical number. They even share Annie Hall homage, of giddily picking up crabs from the kitchen floor. Our heroin is often scene rubbing water on her arms while alone, juxtaposed with our hero covered in his and someone' else's sweat. Their flirting and relationship build up being the emotional heart of the film, which repeats images of watermelon and bottled water, again and again. This is all watched by Chen, who discovers only moments before when she finds the porn starlet passed out in the elevator, and consequently what Lee does for a living. This becomes especially apparent in the last scene, where a women is unconscious/dead (there is some debate between whether this porn actress is dead or passed out from heat exhaustion), but the show must go on, and the crew literally props her up in a variety of positions so the Lee can have sex with her. The detached view of sexuality would seem indebted to films like "Crash" and "Salo" where the body is reduced to a writhing mindless thing with genitals. The same long takes which lingered on an empty hallway now assume the position of Peeping Tom. Mysteries of the Organism", but just as explicit. This is interspersed with scenes of graphic sex, albeit no more than you would see in "Crash", "Short Bus", or "WR. The film is mostly minimalist and truly beautiful in its austere compositions and delicate urban electric light shadows and silhouettes are repeat motif used gorgeously.
One woman named Shiang-chyi Chen sits around her apartment eating watermelon, while her next door neighbor Kang-sheng Lee makes hardcore porn films (which in the opening scene involve a watermelon between a woman's legs). As best I can describe, this is a film about two neighbors who live in an apartment building in Taiwan during an unusually hot summer and inexplicable water shortage. When you see a cover with a girl tongue kissing a watermelon, it is understandable to think "I'll pass", but in this case you would be missing out. Strangest thing about this is that it was a huge hit in Taiwan, grossing 20 million dollars when the average film in the country makes under a million.
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