A City of Sadness Comments

Rico 2023-05-25 01:05:28

Before watching this film, I was fortunate to listen to Mr. Li Ao talk about the Taiwan 228 Incident, which helped me a lot to understand this film. Friends who want to watch this film must also read the introduction of this incident...

Elissa 2023-05-22 09:15:55

Revisit! Hou Hsiao-hsien's most epic work, its significance has gone far beyond the film itself, the calm and exquisite still long-shot (the hospital, dining room, living room several fixed camera positions appear repeatedly, showing the vicissitudes of history passing by) ) The setting of the four brothers is also very metaphorical. The wedding is followed by the funeral, and the last scene carrying the characters is the meal, which also reflects the unique Chinese values ​​and outlook on...

Daron 2023-05-18 16:20:52

The desolate and sad songs of little people, the sad past of this land in Taiwan. Hou Dao sympathetically recounted what had happened to one side of the land, crying and roaring but speechless. The soundtrack is majestic and the camera is quiet and restrained. After reading this film, you will have a better understanding of the situation and thoughts of Taiwan compatriots. The dumb Wenqing played by Tony Leung is like the temperament of the whole movie. It was from this role that he started his...

Rosemary 2023-05-13 18:18:43

In the torrent of the times of great ups and downs, in the midst of the dust of the chaotic world, the grass and mustards are really like ants, slaughtered by others, and have no resistance. How can the weak waves start the rolling torrent, the individual is small, or assimilate, and many will be broken into pieces. In the face of the cruel reality, everything is so sad. The camera records only a beautiful moment. No matter how quiet the lake is, it cannot withstand the waves of a drop of...

Neoma 2023-05-10 11:12:05

When Lao Hou shoots such a heavy historical subject, he still does not change his style of fragmented narrative, downplaying the dramatic conflict, and weakening the climax of the story, and always maintains a calm onlooker...

Alden 2023-04-20 18:24:28

The miniature "Dream of Red Mansions" in the movie. The details are so real that I doubt the screenwriter's ambitions. It seems that "Good Boys and Good Girls" is something I didn't understand. From this film, I began to understand what kind of affection the so-called "Chinese Long Shots" are endowed with. The foreground, middle scene, and background scenes are not chaotic and rich in content. Hou Hsiao-hsien's scene is well...

Valentina 2023-04-18 04:04:47

Hou Hsiao-hsien once said, "I think one day a movie should be made like this: plain, very simple, and everyone can watch it. But those who see deeply can see very deep, very deep." Many times of desertion, but careful recall and taste, but expressed a lot. Keelung reminds me of Weizhou Island and Xieyang...

Kale 2023-04-14 13:22:26

In the two and a half hours of calm and grief, behind the decline of the Lin family was the four years of darkness before the official move of the Kuomintang after the surrender of Japan. The light did not come as expected, and more bloody repression came. The "February 28 Incident" was the pinnacle of social turmoil. "In fact, it was mysteriously similar to what happened in the imperial capital last year," Hou Hsiao-hsien said in 1990. The pinnacle of Taiwanese movies, Xiaoqing is a fart in...

Skyla 2023-04-09 18:53:08

Really captured the depth, Taiwanese should feel particularly profound. I also seem to be able to understand why many Taiwanese have a deep hatred for the...

Leora 2023-04-03 03:08:31

Japanese, Cantonese, Shanghainese, and people who speak Mandarin can all decide the fate of Taiwan, and all Taiwanese can be shot, but the islanders cannot. For the people of this island, even if they escape to Neiliao, they cannot escape the fate of being colonized. This is the eternal tragedy of...