"Yi Yi" is the first Yang Dechang film I've watched. If he hadn't been Cai Qin's husband, I wouldn't be bothered to watch it, it's purely out of curiosity. Curiosity kills cats, but it also kills people. Let's talk about this movie, first of all, it is very long, huge, nearly 3 hours. When I saw half of it, I looked at the remaining time with the remote control and almost fainted, it was too long. It's not wrong to be long, the problem is that it makes people feel that it's wrong to be long!
Secondly, there are so many things to say in this film that I don’t even know what it’s going to say. In general, Jian Yangyang’s words are very philosophical. Look," and the words he recited in front of his grandmother at the end. But it's too noisy, the whole film gives me the feeling that it is like this, it's a mess, and the photography style is so "personal", always medium and long shots, like a voyeur. I guess that Yang Dechang in life probably doesn't like to talk, or is not good at talking. For example, almost everyone in the film has an extramarital affair. Everyone is not very good with their wives at home, but they are very harmonious with their lovers. What does Yang want to say through this? do not know. I didn't have time to think about it, because an hour before the film, I was guessing the relationship between the characters in the film, who is the brother-in-law, who is this woman who suddenly appeared, who is the wife of the one with short hair and the one with the big belly, and who is the lover. .....Not bad, in the end these characters are basically in place, no matter how they interspersed and appeared in a random manner. The problem is that the most unbearable thing for me is the dullness and trivialness of the whole film. Cai Qin once complained that her ex-husband knew nothing about life and did not know how to do housework. I thought that all masters, such as Nie Weiping, were like this. , must be the cause of the entire Taiwanese society.
The third point I want to mention is that I have only watched a few Taiwanese films, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's "The Man from the Windbox", Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet", Chen Guo's "Durian Fluttering" and "Xi Luxiang", etc. In addition to this "Yiyi", I have to say that although the plots of these films have no similarities, they feel that the styles are very unified. lingering. What they shoot is very realistic - at least it looks real, it should be Taiwan's social problems in various periods, but I always feel that the directors are too hard, so that they go through the layer they want to say, run To another area that they themselves can't control. And the audience sat there, even more confused.
I once heard a story from a friend of a man in his thirties who fell in love with his immediate boss, a woman ten years older than him, absolutely in love with his brother. He wanted to get married, and the woman said it was okay, but she wanted to secretly go to Hong Kong to get married because she didn't want people to know. This woman is from Taiwan. At that time, I thought that the people of Taiwan are not the same as us, their thinking gradually deviated from the normal track, and it would be very difficult to bring them back, at least - there is no point in relying on a few noisy movies. .
For the life in the film, Yang must not like it, so why show it to us? It took a full three hours. I could have used this time - for example, to watch one or two less boring movies. Movie. Movies take over my life, and that's what really sucks.
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