The Good at Forgetting Village

I saw this movie on Amazon Prime called “The Village of No Return,” in Chinese that’s 健忘村 Jiànwàng Cūn. It should have been translated more literally as “The Good at Forgetting Village.” I thought the movie was great. It is weird and crazy too. It is a dark comedy from Taiwan.

The plot is that a Daoist magician shows up in this small town with a device that can erase memories. The iconography of the device is from the epic play Canonization of the Gods (Fengshen Yanyi). The device fits on...