It's a Tsai kino

Text on the meme

What's all this racket going on up here, son? You're watching gay dramas again? It's a Tsai kino... It's not gay and it's not drama. It's an arthouse black comedy with complex mise en scenes that defies genre definitions Here, watch this

What it means

A hand-drawn four-panel comic shows a father confronting someone watching supposedly gay dramas. The viewer insists it is “Tsai kino,” meaning an arthouse film by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, and presents a dramatically intense shirtless man as proof. The joke parodies pretentious film explanations and the gap between a film’s genre description and its homoerotic or absurd imagery.

Who

Tsai Ming-liang (Цай Минлян)

Objects

father / отец son / сын bed / кровать pillow / подушка blanket / одеяло round glasses / круглые очки beard / борода television screen / экран телевизора shirtless man / мужчина без рубашки dark room / тёмная комната hand-drawn comic panels / нарисованные панели комикса black-and-white drawing / чёрно-белый рисунок dramatic lighting / драматическое освещение pointing hand / указывающая рука