"What Time Are You Over There" is a loneliness poison. Before taking it, the heart is empty, and after taking it, the desolation is even more powerful, and there is nowhere to escape.
Ah, me and you, and him and her, are so lonely.
I watched Li Kangsheng toss and turn, unable to sleep, and weeping fiercely. I watched him set every watch, alarm clock at home, and alarm clocks in watch shops and public places to Paris time. I watched him stand alone in front of the watch stand, holding the watch chain and tossing it to the railing behind him.
His silence was painful. His loneliness is even more unbearable. There seems to be an aura that makes people want to stand beside him and fight against the boundless loneliness together.
I almost fell in love with him. Ah, I am such a tangled man who loves silence, introverted, and traumatized.
His relationship with his dad doesn't seem to be warm. At the beginning of the movie, Miao Tian called him to eat, and the soft Hokkien made me almost burst into tears, um, it was like a local accent, even if it was only similar. When heartbroken, why pay too much attention? It's just that he never showed up. And Miao Tian sighed to himself.
After that, he was holding his father's ashes, and when he passed through the tunnel, he gently summoned his father to follow. The tone is sincere, like coaxing a child, which is even more worrying. I am so afraid of such unforgettable love and misses.
What does the watch girl who went to Paris mean to him? Chen Xiangqi insisted on buying the watch he had worn. He didn't mind that he was keeping his filial piety, and he didn't mind what he said would decline, so he insisted on taking his watch to Paris. From this, Xiaokang began a period of inexplicable ambiguous thoughts.
He adjusted all the watches, the alarm clocks at home, the clocks in the watch shop and the clocks in public places to Paris time. He watches French black and white films. He wanted to associate himself with France. Maybe he misses her? At that time, when she bought his watch, Yu Wen was still there, and her thoughts actually crossed the ocean with the watch. How incredible. How logical.
I seem to understand his inexplicable miss. After losing her father, the increasingly neurotic mother is completely broken. In fact, he also misses his dead father, right? Why not cry viciously at midnight? Depressed, with nowhere to go. Maybe there are only seemingly perverted behaviors, can we talk about it for comfort?
As for Chen Xiangqi, how has it ever been better? Language barrier, her English can not help her again and again. Weak, she shuttled in the crowd. Everything seemed to have nothing to do with her. Even those who pass by in a hurry are reduced to the background of human flesh. Her loneliness penetrated into the bone marrow.
She was waiting for the train in the subway, which made people want to protect her, even if she didn't really need it. Sometimes she feels like a lonely soul, wandering on her own, and the nerves of joy seem to have been pulled away. Such a young girl, such a heavy heart, and the mysterious reason for coming to Paris, the combination is strange, but it works well. Well, how much I love these actors who can silence me and watch the movie without too many lines, what a great thing. One look and one action convey countless emotions, how agile.
I have always been rather vulgar and hoped that the two would have an intersection. For example, late at night, Chen Xiangqi called Xiaokang and asked him what time was there? Then silence. However, Director Tsai Ming-liang was unwilling to shatter such a boring dream of mine. Those thoughts about Paris are nothing more than a well-off thinking too much.
Well, it's all because of loneliness.
He finally couldn't stand his mother's nerves. Food and lodging were all in the car, and he even threw away the rancid cake given to him by classmate Chen. He went to prostitutes, he fell asleep in the car, and prostitutes stole his food business. He has nothing. He had to go home.
She lost Xiaokang's business card. On the park chair, she was about to go crazy. Fortunately, a French man gave her a phone number, and she was quiet just now. She met Ye Tong, and the brief intimacy brought more emptiness. She dragged her suitcase and left silently.
She seemed brave enough. But it made me very distressed. Ah, how scared I am to see such a lonely and strong scene. I always have to think about countless things, and my sorrows will overlap with hers, and I feel that all my thoughts are despairing. I wish I could get a grand hug, and I will die immediately.
The ending of the film does not give a clearer explanation of the story. very good. I have never rejected such an ambiguous ending. Too much clarity can sometimes be too disappointing.
Just like, ambiguous is easier to think about.
I think older lonely men and women like me will hate and love this movie. Loneliness does not need to be chewed, it will ruminate on its own, not toss people to death, and never let it go.
And this is a life like shit, right?
Well, darling, tell me, what time are you over there?
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