(Du Li Shi Dai). With wicked humor and great insight, Yang chronicles what Orville Schell called the "unprecedented meltdown of 4,000 years of Confucian culture" amidst the Taiwanese economic miracle. "Few Chinese filmmakers have probed the heart of this contemporary darkness with such relentlessness," Schell wrote. Yang runs with the ironic idea that the rigid conformism and discipline of Confucianism has produced personal wealth that confounds the very precepts of Confucious. The anxiety of this philosophical dislocation permeates life with a certain hysteria, at least as Yang depicts it in following two days for a group of Taipei yuppies. This upwardly mobile clique revolves around Molly, who runs her family's public relations business. Molly, the Seinfeld of Taipei, draws on the loyalty of old friends to prop up both her commercial and emotional life amid the sparkling skyscrapers of the new Taiwan. Her cronies, with their deliciously interconnected histories, include artistic sellouts and would-be existentialists, perpetual failures in love, and searchers for a neo-Confucian identity-one that doesn't preclude the big bucks.