This spectacularly eccentric satire by Su Hui-Yu draws on 1970s Taiwanese TV culture and has a roller-skating Hitler dance with Stalin and Mao do the same with Chiang Kai-shek. A revue show of dictators in cahoots with the entertainment industry.

In the early 1980s, hundreds of the so-called female revenging/exploitation films were produced in Taiwan. The 2020 version was based on the old genre to recreate a fantasy of the bloody revenge. The film is one of Su Hui-Yu’s “Re-shooting” series, which re-visits historical sources in Taiwan during the old days around the 1970s-1980s while the country was under martial law governance.

《超級禁忌》的敘事源自一本早年俗稱「小本」的黃色刊物，內容除了來自歐美、日本的盜版色情圖片，露骨的性愛描寫卻是如今讀來頗有韻味的白話文學體。由金士傑飾演的都會白領階級男性，在荒郊野外喃喃唸著書中情節，帶領我們逐步進入超現實的情慾場景。做為錄像裝置，《超級禁忌》一作企圖以重構／歪讀／幻想的策略帶領我們回到藝術家青少年時期的1980年代台灣。那時色情被推擠到視聽體制的邊緣，僅見容於深夜節目、午夜場、錄影帶出租店的小房間或書店裡最後一排書櫃。然而，被禁制的色情刊物永遠比敞開著的更性感，色情因為被視為下流、齷齪、敗德才換得吸引力。藝術家對此的興趣讓人想起巴岱耶（Georges Bataille）──對肉體快感興趣缺缺，只對被視為骯髒的東西有興趣。在《超級禁忌》裡，藝術家行走在這樣的稜線上，對禁忌的大眾文化產物進行一系列歪斜的閱讀，展示那個年代充滿曖昧的雙重性──高與低、主流與地下、端莊與清涼。純粹的快感彷彿是危險的，必須以先驗的愛來背書，或有社會情境為襯底，就像藝術家展示的色情古本中，粉紅色的口交影像佐以情感真摯的告白：「我們是同病相憐同在這個人慾橫流，勢利的社會生活，我們應該互相愛護才好呢！」