Romantic Comedy Finds Humor in OCD

In 2019, Taiwanese director Liao Ming-Yi’s “Parking” won the Grand Prize in the FiLMiC Pro Mobile Film Festival. That 4-minute drama was about a doctor suffering from OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Now Liao is back with “I Weirdo,” a feature-length love story about two people with OCD. According to Variety, this is “the first Asian fiction feature to…

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Prize-winning Drama Explores OCD

When making documentaries of living people, filmmakers typically arrange for their subjects to talk about themselves. Although used less frequently in fiction films, the same technique can provide intimate and dramatic moments. Self-revelation in a drama is usually done in voice-over while the character carries out a defining activity, such as running a marathon or robbing…

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