Her father Junyang (Wu Chien-ho) comes in with sandwiches; he could be sleep-walking.
In a chilling sequence, he follows a woman with a baby in a pram.
When her back is turned, he picks the baby up.
Wu Chien-Ho in ‘Stranger Eyes.‘Christopher Wong/Akanga Film
Yet nothing comes of it; nothing comes of most of their efforts, not even embarrassment.
She must not have seen him.
Later DVDs show them in bed; they are obviously filmed from the opposite apartment block.
The stalker is duly identified as Lao Wu (Lee Kang-sheng), an undermanager in the local supermarket.
Like Junyang and his wife, he lives with a dominating, demanding mother.
For a few minutes, at least, the hunt for Little Bo has been sidelined.
There is no explanation for how they tracked her down.
Patience, says Officer Zheng, quite impatiently.
Yeo Siew Hua certainly isnt going to bother with details of a missing persons case.
That has long since ceased to be the point.
The point is how these people see themselves and their lives, through veils of delusion and deceit.
But that discordant strangeness is also its allure.
