Review of The Skywalk Is Gone

Perhaps this is best described as a curio. It's an addendum to What Time Is It There?, Tsai's previous feature. The girl in that film (Shiang-chyi Chen) has returned to Taipei from Paris (with no indication of how long she's been gone or how long she's been back), and she is searching for the man who sold her a watch on a skywalk (Kang-sheng Lee). But, as the title states, the skywalk is gone. She never finds Lee, but Tsai eventually turns his focus to him. He lost his job because there is no more skywalk (though, as I recall, though I haven't seen it in a couple of years, that the suitcase full of watches was stolen by a hooker). Now he is reduced to prostituting himself to men (or starring in porn videos made for gay men). The film has little reason to exist, but any Tsai, I think, is worth watching. At 25 minutes, this short contains about five times as much dialogue as Goodbye, Dragon Inn.