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Where is the sadness of the sad city?
Reid 2022-04-22 07:01:53
To be honest, I really didn't understand it after reading it once. Maybe because I don't know the history of Taiwan's 228, I really can't understand the whole plot. Time and space may be confused, and the relationship between characters is also very complicated. The fate of the Lin family has also undergone great changes with the evolution of the February 28 incident. Zheng's fourth brother was also arrested. In the face of the trend of the times, the disintegration of a traditional family is delicate and meaningful under the long-shot interpretation of director Hou Hsiao-hsien. The sadness of a city, I think, is its helplessness
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