Behind the simple title is the trivial trivia of an ordinary family in Taipei, but behind the trivial matters is a person's life.
The protagonist NJ is an ordinary middle-aged man in Taipei in the late 1990s. What he has is a wife who is overwhelmed by the pressure of day-to-day work life; a high school student daughter who is just beginning to love; Coax, a brother-in-law who has done nothing but a woman; a nephew who is the product of getting in the car and then paying for the ticket; a mother-in-law who is in a coma; a whimsical and rather rebellious 9-year-old son and an increasingly unpleasant job; of course, There is also a first love girlfriend who happens to meet again.
Every character in the play means a stage in life, your today is my yesterday, and my tomorrow is his today. But as NJ said, "it is impossible for a person to let another person teach him how to live and how to live", so the troubles and confusion that NJ experienced yesterday, his daughter and son will still meet, and NJ always has One day, I will experience the feeling of an old woman who is sick in bed. There may be differences in external performance, but the essence is the same. In fact, life "isn't that complicated." It's a reciprocation time and time again, and the ladder that one person has stepped on will always be the step of another person. The cycle of life is always tiresome, so the wife has to "go up the mountain" to seek religious solace, and NJ also tries to go to Tokyo with his first girlfriend to spend some time in his youth. The final result was that I found that "if I could live again, the results would be similar, nothing different, but I suddenly felt that if I lived again, there might be no need for that." In fact, a "less complicated" life is not so difficult to accept.
For the judges of the film festival dominated by European and American people, the cheongsam of the East is obviously easier to understand than the life of those unpredictable oriental people, so the best film in their eyes is "In the Mood for Love", in short, some things are forever. will not understand. One cannot teach another how to live, nor can one culture teach another how to understand life.
When I talk about most movies, I talk about the performance of the actors in the play, and shake off the gossip of these men and women, but I don't need to talk about the performance. Noticing their cast status, this is a movie without drama at all.
"Yiyi" is a standard portrait of the life of an oriental person, a vertical line through life, and every shot and every line of dialogue is a life experience. Don't miss every detail of "Yiyi", maybe what you miss is an emotional resonance. Words can convey the plot, but they can't hold that trace of emotion.
I have too many words. In fact, one sentence is enough for the viewing experience of "Yiyi", like a lifetime.
"Yi Yi" is so good that it doesn't feel like a movie.
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