inner time

Deontae 2022-04-20 09:02:36

The first half was a little dull, like a process of forming depression. People's unhappiness always accumulates. Sadness, disappointment and other unpleasant emotions accumulate silently in daily life, and then suddenly swept in like a storm that covers the sky at a certain moment. The collapse is always instantaneous.

The emotional expression in the second half is wonderful, and the slow-paced front part seems to be the foreshadowing of this.

What time are you over there, as if asking others, you are actually asking yourself. Xiaokang, Xiaokang's mother, and Xiangqi each have two hours.

After Xiaokang met Xiangqi, he had infinite reverie about Paris. He rented a video about Paris, adjusted the time of the watch to the time of Paris, and chased the time of Paris in his heart through these methods.

After her husband passed away, Xiaokang's mother changed to eat at midnight. She believed that there was a time when she could meet her husband again.

After Xiangqi came to Paris, she couldn't sleep every night. She wandered in this strange city alone and couldn't communicate with others because of the language barrier, so she always called Xiaokang's phone, looking forward to getting in touch with Taiwan time.

Everyone belongs to two times, one is the real time, and the other is the time that the heart wants to go.

All three tried to erase the loneliness and anguish caused by this gap between reality and heart. Xiaokang has sex with a strange woman in the car, her mother masturbates in her father's bedroom, and Xiangqi sleeps in bed with a woman she meets by chance. They thought that just through sex, companionship, and comfort, they could go to the time they longed for, but they all failed. Do they really know what time it is in the deepest part of their hearts?

No, they don't know. So they can only feel the unbearable loneliness, the unbearable loneliness that cannot be healed.

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Extended Reading
  • Kole 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    #Light# Cai Mingliang is the first time to collaborate with a foreign photographer. The French photographer brings him new elements, mixing color temperature, high-contrast images and poetic aperture changes. Dehon's strategy for lighting is that some elements remain the same, fixed cameras, long takes and no big moves. Dehong, however, uses high-contrast lighting to draw our attention to only part of the shot. Use a fixed wide-angle lens to compose your shot, like a painting in a way, focusing the light on the most important parts of the frame. They spend three hours preparing a shot, which is quite a lot of time.

  • Antonio 2022-03-20 09:02:57

    Lonely, to the bone. The English name is "7 to 400 Blows", and the heroine meets the teenager (now middle-aged and elderly) who was hit by 400. Cai Mingliang, you are too good! Xiaokang sells watches on the flyover, the kind of watches that can be smashed on the stone railings all the time, why are they not being sold now?

What Time Is It There? quotes

  • Woman in Paris: Oh, Taiwan. I've been there. It's fun.

  • [first lines]

    Father: Hsiao Kang? Hsiao Kang?