The reason why I like Taiwanese art films is very simple, because the pace is very slow, usually 3 to 4 hours, so I can do some other things during the time I watch the film, memorize Japanese words, or read English novels, and then watch The people on the screen live a monotonous life similar to himself, as if the two worlds are parallel.
Cai Mingliang is not my favorite director, and his works are sometimes too rough, making it difficult to relax. But I really like his debut novel. The parallel lives of the two teenagers are intertwined in light and shadow, and they mingle in the noisy and cold Taipei City, and that kind of faint despair spreads.
Real life will never be so exciting, so everything is light, and even despair is so vaguely entangled there.
The mother said to her father worriedly: "Xian Gu said that our son is the reincarnation of the third prince of Nezha. No wonder your father and son are so discordant." A bowl is thrown on the back.
He's always been the kind of rebellious in silence because he doesn't know what he wants. Sneaking out of cram school classes and roaming around with the refunded money for fun. The parents were furious and stopped letting him into the house.
In fact, the love with his father used to be very deep. His father promised to take him to the movies, but he was knocked on the window by another boy riding a motorcycle. The angry father was no longer in the mood. He was sad and wanted revenge. .
The boy on the bike was in the same predicament, stealing video game consoles for a living with his friend and hanging out with his eldest brother's girlfriend. The theft was eventually discovered and was chased and beaten to death.
He said, "I don't know where to go." He hugged the girl and cried.
Sewer water has been running in his room.
Life feels dirty.
The son's inexplicable feelings for the boy are mixed with the pleasure of revenge and admiration.
Destroyed his motorcycle, left the big characters "Nezha here" on the ground, peeked at the downstairs from the window and was shocked and angry, he was so excited that he laughed and jumped on the bed.
At one point, I really felt that he was the reincarnation of Nezha.
He keeps stalking him, jealously watching him dating girls. The rendezvous of two people is just a meeting of passers-by, each struggling in his own world, irrelevant to each other.
At the end of the film, the son finished drinking Coke in the club where he made friends by phone. He saw the constantly ringing phone and refused to answer, and finally left without saying a word.
despair.
After all, Taiwanese movies are like background music, and I won't stare at the screen all the time, like I did when I watched Hou Hsiao-hsien's movies. What I like are movies with strong emotions, fast shots that can make me excited every minute, and legendary life beyond reality.
I don't like works of art that are too close to reality. Art is always higher than life. Otherwise, there will be no last bit of spiritual comfort.
Therefore, it is limited to liking this movie, not to mention liking.
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