A thousand years at a glance

Suzanne 2022-02-07 14:56:51

Just saw the premiere at the Osaka Asian Film Festival. It's not too much of a surprise, but it's not too disappointing. Overall, it can be regarded as one of the representative works of same-sex movies that exploded with the legalization of gay marriage in Taiwan. The director tries to find a balance between same-sex and religious beliefs - since God preaches love, why is same-sex not love? The director wisely set the priest's identity as homosexual, and finally left the church to live with his lover, but said that he carried sins and could not enter heaven after death. Therefore, in the priest, the contradiction between the two has not been resolved. The two young actors are remarkable, but the big reunion scene after the last 30 years, whether it is casting, acting, or plot, is a failure. (The middle-aged Jiahan turned around and saw the shot of Bird covering his mouth, and the audience burst out laughing) This movie spanning 30 years is like a powerless and silent scream. After the long-term goal of legalizing gay marriage has finally been achieved, there is a sense of incomprehension in the back of my mind after the sudden achievement of the goal.

Clarabelle 2022-03-18 09:01:09

At the beginning, no good characters were established, and they were cut from Chen's perspective, but they were scattered in the group play by the sidelines. The flat-headed Chen Haosen and Zeng Jinghua were simply the same person. So the audience was busy identifying the characters, but couldn't find the source of the love. I tried to use several of Chen and priest's rival plays that were very similar to the stage play as a structure, but the theme expression was so straightforward that it made people's foreheads frequently raised. The daily running account is broken and long-winded. What kind of boys are they who deliberately curry favor with modern audiences with political banter and a mouthful of literary accents? Still can't catch it. The comparison between the present and the past may still have the significance of the era of the Act, but the LGBTQ themes in these years have long been out of the affliction of trafficking. Although the last sight of the boy who escaped to a corner of the sea is still heart-wrenching, this story really lives in the past and has nothing new.