Ting-Ting: [Subtitled Version] Why is the world so different from what we thought it was? Now that you're awake and see it again... has it changed at all? Now I've closed my eyes... the world I see... is so beautiful.
Ota: Why are we afraid of the first time? Every day in life is a first time. Every morning is new. We never live the same day twice. We're never afraid of getting up every morning. Why?
Yang-Yang: I'm sorry, Grandma. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to you. I think all the stuff I could tell you... You must already know. Otherwise, you wouldn't always tell me to 'Listen!' They all say you've gone away. But you didn't tell me where you went. I guess it's someplace you think I should know. But, Grandma, I know so little. Do you know what I want to do when I grow up? I want to tell people things they don't know. Show them stuff they haven't seen. It'll be so much fun. Perhaps one day... I'll find out where you've gone. If I do, can I tell everyone, and bring them to visit you? Grandma, I miss you. Especially when I see my newborn cousin who still doesn't have a name. He reminds me that you always said you felt old. I want to tell him that I feel I am old, too.
Yang-Yang: Daddy, you can't see what I see and I can't see what you see. So how can I know what you see?

N.J.: Good question. I never thought of that. That's why we need a camera. Do you want one to play with?

Yang-Yang: Daddy, can we only know half of the truth?

N.J.: What? I don't get it

Yang-Yang: I can only see what's in front, not what's behind. So I can only know half of the truth, right?
N.J.: I had chance to relive part of my youth.My first thought was then i could make things turnout differently but they turned out the same or not much different.I suddenly realized that even if i was given a second chance i wouldn't need it, I really wouldn't.
Pangzi: Life is a mixture of happy and sad things. Movies are so lifelike - that's why we love them.

Ting-Ting: Then who needs movies? Just stay home and live life.

Pangzi: My uncle says we live three times as long since man invented movies.

Ting-Ting: How can that be?

Pangzi: It means movies give us twice what we get from daily life.

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Presley 2022-03-26 09:01:11

Yang Dechang won the Best Director at Cannes. 1. "The invention of the film has tripled our lives", this film seems to have exhausted each of our lives in three hours; 2. The long-range fixed-length shots are the main focus, the composition is excellent, the soundtrack is simplified, and amateurs are used Actor, the ultimate realism; 3. The use of mirrors and glass reflections in many places is exquisite; 4. The trivial details of life, the golden sentences are constant, complex but not complicated, and meaningful. (9.5/10)
Fernando 2022-01-12 08:01:56

This is a slow movie, and it is this slowness that can bring the confusion and sadness of all members of an ordinary family to the audience. Yang Yang said that he was old, but the world has been getting old. To borrow Tagore's words: "Children are gathering on the seashore of the boundless world. Storms are drifting in the roadless sky, ships are broken on the trackless sea, death is rampant, and the children are At the game. On the seashore of the boundless world, the children are gathering together."