PUBLIC TOILET

China, 2002, 102 minutes, Colour.
Directed by Fruit Chan.

Public Toilet is an art film for festivals. It focuses on two characters in China, in India on their travels, in New York City. The theme uses the public toilet as a symbol for places where people go, for bodily functions, for images of life and death. Chan then made the controversial Dumplings.

1. The impact of the film, a Chinese perspective, the characters from Beijing, the toilets of the world, India and New York? The musical score?

2. The information about the central character, the toilet, the others, life there? The old man (and his dying)? Bodily functions, people, service? Different customs, buildings, a male world?

3. The toilet, metaphors, the human condition?

4. The central character in Beijing, friends, bonds? The illness, the sense of mission?

5. The two brothers in India, the Ganges, the ill, the wise people, the Hindu customs?

6. New York, the search, the killer, the video, the girl, death?

7. The random aspects of the universal world, the toilet metaphor, questions about life?