I think if you can calm down and watch, it is best to be alone. You will like it on a rainy afternoon, or in the morning and evening. Because people live with memory. Hou Hsiao-hsien said that there are many auspicious feathers in life, which are indescribable, difficult to classify, and do not constitute any significant meaning, but they just linger in our hearts. "For example, when I was young I liked to hit the pole, and the song "Smoke gets in your eyes" was always played in the pool room. Now that I am nearly sixty years old, these things have been there for so long, it has become like I owe it and have to pay it back, So I had to photograph them. I call them the best times."
Hou Hsiao-hsien said, the meaning contained in it is not that these times are the best, but that these times have been lost forever and can only be recalled with nostalgia. So it is the best.
Hou Hsiao-hsien said that a good movie, in addition to its own meaning, should allow you to be more clear about what you like and what you don't like through it. It is also a door, if you have the key to open this door, you will find another sky, another world. You go to understand and then decide, accept or reject, very simple matter.
"The Best Time" English name There Time, starring Shu Qi and Zhang Zhen. In 1911, the dream of freedom; in 1966, the dream of love; in 2005, the dream of youth. It has spanned nearly 100 years since the beginning of the 20th century, and in the three most representative eras of Taiwan, we have a glimpse of three different but equally touching views on love. The location of the event started from the prosperous Dadaocheng in those days, passed through Keelung, Taichung, Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan and Kaohsiung, and finally ended in today's Taipei. In different eras, there are different types of love, but it is also the best time in life...
Talk about my personal favorite "A time for love" (A time for love). 1966. The boy who was about to become a soldier wrote a letter to Haruko, the scoring lady in the billiards room, but Haruko casually put the letter in the drawer. Chunzi left and came to take over the work of Xiumei, but saw this letter. The young man came looking for Chunzi but didn't meet him. He was very disappointed. In Xiumei's eyes, it was interesting. The day before the boy enlisted in the army, he played pool ball with Xiumi until late. Soon, Xiu Mei received a letter from the boy from the camp.
During the holiday, the teenager came back in a far car and went to the pool room to find Xiu Mei, but Xiu Mei left, and the scoring lady who succeeded Xi Mei said that Xiu Mei went to a pool room in Chiayi. The boy went to Chiayi by car to look for it, but there was none. The teenager went to Huwei by car and found the Xiumei home according to the address on the envelope. Xiumei's mother said that Xiumei had written a letter back and took the letter to the boy. Finally, the boy found Xiu Mei in the pool room in Xinying. However, it was time for the boy to take his leave. After eating noodles, Xiu Mei took him to the Highway Bureau Station to take a bus.
It's that simple to tell the story, but it's different if you use sound and pictures, in a lyrical and sentimental way. Can't say anything similar, but I think of "Love Letter" and "Izu Dancer".
A recurring billiard shop. early morning. dusk. rain. dialect. letter. Ocean. ferry. There have been not many people. I love every ordinary scene and picture in it. The silent demeanor of the hero and heroine, or their dialect, or even the sound of a pool ball. I like every morning and evening, the tall Shu Qi walks through the softly lit billiards room, opening or closing the heavy wooden door. I like the quiet backlight that pervades it, the silent anticipation and search, and of course, there is also the "Rain and Tears", which is inexplicably sad, but sad and happy; inexplicably happy, but happy again is ethereal. Warm, nostalgic. At the same time, it is rural, with an indescribable local style.
Well, in the end, let's go back to that song, "Rain and Tears": "Rain and tears all the same But in the sun, you've got to play the game..."
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