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"The Cat That Walks Through Walls" by Shang Qin | 1976 - Like a Rolling Poem 2 Music Documentary
Poet Shang Qin’s The Cat Who Walks Through the Wall presents a timeless philosophical proposition: "Happiness is the half that people have never obtained." Through insightful commentary by poet Hung Hung and novelist Yi-Chin Lo, this episode examines how longing transforms into an elusive phantom, and captures how the band 1976 translates this blend of humor and melancholia into music. Journeying to the War Remnants Museum in Vietnam, the creators reflect on their own visions of happiness under the shadow of cross-strait and geopolitical tension. More than a cross-generational literary deconstruction, this film is an intimate exploration of love, human kindness, and gentleness in an uncertain modern age.
Can a poem change the world? *Like a Rolling Poem 2* continues its music-documentary exploration rooted in poetry, transforming six poems into songs and confronting the questions that define contemporary life. In *I Want to Live with You*, we search through loneliness for the desires that lie deepest within us; in *Lullaby of the North-Link Railway*, we contemplate the turning of time and the unease of parting; through *A Romantic Affair*, we unravel an attachment in which love and hate spring from the same source; in *The Cat That Walks Through Walls*, we encounter the imagination of freedom amid confinement and historical displacement; through *Watching for a Longer Time*, the presumed equivalence of love and hate is overturned, making room for tenderness; and finally, in *Apocalypse Blues*, we cut through the haze of our times, face crisis head-on, and rediscover the resilience of everyday life. More than an encounter between modern poetry and contemporary music, this is a philosophical inquiry into the human condition. Even if the world is as fleeting as a dream or a bubble, we still possess the freedom to choose kindness and love—to let them stir within us, and keep rolling onward.
