I couldn't get through

我無法打通

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3 min 35 sec

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“I couldn’t get through” uses humor and exaggeration to portray the cultural contradictions and systemic challenges faced by an immigrant living abroad. The protagonist cooks Danish beef (hakket oksekød) using familiar methods from their own background while endlessly waiting on the phone to reach the immigration office—revealing the absurd reality of trying to integrate into a new culture while being held at the margins of its bureaucracy. This wait is not just a daily inconvenience, but a form of structural violence embedded in the system. The work invites viewers to laugh, only to gradually realize that what they are witnessing is the lived reality of many immigrants.

《我無法打通》透過幽默誇張的手法，呈現一位移民在異地生活中的文化矛盾與制度性困境。主角一邊以自身熟悉的方式料理丹麥牛肉 (hakket oksekød)，一邊無止境地等待與移民機構接通的電話，展現出試圖融入新文化卻又被排除在體制邊緣的荒謬現實。這段等待不只是生活的不便，更是一種潛藏於制度中的暴力。作品讓觀者在笑聲中逐漸察覺，這正是許多移民的真實處境。

吳承澤 WU Cheng-Tse