The turbulence of the times is reflected in people's hearts. People meet the narrow road of history, people want to seize the way and escape, history has not yielded, and both lose in the end. The youth of the youngsters are like flashlights they stole from the studio. The role they can play when walking at night is really limited, but it exposes the loneliness and helplessness of the travellers themselves. In fact, this kind of adolescent subject matter is really well shot, and it should be the most unremarkable. Boys are idiotic boys and girls are bitter girls, love and hate are intertwined every day, every day love cannot be love, hate cannot be hate-how many twists and turns, disillusionment, struggle and radical change!
Like Edward Yang's other films, "A Brighter Summer Day" has a rigorous structure, vivid details, complicated but clear characters, and a complicated but not messy narrative
From this perspective, "A Brighter Summer Day" aims to "retrospect" rather than "nostalgia". Edward Yang is still a quite intellectual creator. He attempts to find a nine-O In fact, the historical critical views of the era still maintain a fairly moderate distance and objectivity in the style orientation of the entire movie.
