Both Mr. Chen and Mr. Soong have gained from their campaigning against "black gold" in politics, the term here for the business manipulations, alliances with mobsters and vote buying that have plagued Taiwanese politics.
Turkey has Kurdish papers, communist papers, Islamic papers, even Kuva-yi Medya, a courageous exposer of the business moguls' media manipulation.
All film-makers are in the business of audience manipulation, it's just that some are better at it than others.
That has made it a prime target for producers of textiles, auto parts and other ailing industries, which say China is stealing their business by currency manipulation.
Let's admit it, we in the consumer web industry are in the manipulation business.
These include fines and compensation payments for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, a massive computer failure, the mis-selling of interest rate products to small businesses and the manipulation of the foreign exchange market.
Meanwhile, a long-time market observer, Howard Gold, quotes the president of a prominent advising firm as saying the Fed is "definitely in the market-manipulation business," meaning a Yellen put will follow the Bernanke put, which followed the Greenspan put.
If another company's Web site for, say, a travel service, competes with an ancillary business of Google's, manipulation of search results could be considered anticompetitive.
The true existentialist in the movie is the couple's renegade French disciple, Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert), a sexy philosophe in a limo who believes that we're all alone, that life, as it says on her business card, is "cruelty, manipulation, meaninglessness".
Disruption can come from culture, service, work ethic, aggregation, smart use of real estate and probably a dozen other factors, and what we look at as technological disruption is often in fact use of a technology, but, more importantly, change in service level and manipulation of business plan.
