A City of Sadness Reviews

Elody 2022-09-04 00:21:23

Chen Songyong, I know him from the "Young and Dangerous" series in Hong Kong. His hoarse and rough voice is easy to remember. At any stop, his aura comes out, and he is full of swearing. In the play, he played the eldest of the four brothers of the Lin family, opened a restaurant, and was the...

Idell 2022-04-24 07:01:24

Released in 1989, "Sorrowful City" can be said to be the pinnacle of Hou Hsiao-hsien's work. The film takes Taiwan's February 28 incident as its historical background and tells the life experiences of the four Lin brothers in Keelung. The turbulent history of the film reveals the director's deep...

Dovie 2022-04-24 07:01:24

The realist narrative pretends that all assertions of "unplayed" and "life-like" are in themselves a pretense, an aesthetic deception. --Louis Giannetti, Understanding Movies, Chapter 8: The Story I couldn't fall asleep at 2:30 at night. I remembered listening to Gao Xiaosong talk about this movie...

Onie 2022-04-24 07:01:24

1. All works by Zola are banned because his surname is Zuo. 2. There is a paragraph in "Tian Long Ba Bu", where two people fight, Wang Yuyan interjected: This is Jiang's famous trick "Yunyan in the past". So "Dragon Babu" was banned. 3. A movie called "Junior Sister Out of the Horse" was banned,...

Theodore 2022-04-24 07:01:24

I revisited Hou Hsiao-hsien's "City of Sadness", and after watching it, I felt a sense of sadness. This film was released in 1989. It was based on the story of four brothers in Taiwan between 1945 and 1949. It won the twenty-sixth award. Golden Horse Award for Best Director, Best Actor (Chen...

Melba 2022-04-24 07:01:24

Due to the recent Golden Horse Awards, I took out "The City of Sadness" and watched it again. At this moment, I listened to the SENS soundtrack and typed these words, from the movie to the soundtrack, all told us: Hou Hsiao-hsien is a Bodhisattva, who is cold-eyed and compassionate.

An excellent...

Jazmin 2022-04-24 07:01:24

You know that some movies are not your thing before you watch them, but you have to watch them for three reasons: 1. The director Hou Hsiao-hsien is too awesome 2. It is related to major historical events 3. The villain film critics always mention it. After watching it, you will feel that no matter...

Bennie 2022-04-24 07:01:24

The gloomy clouds are bleak and ten thousand miles condensed. The poems I memorized in middle school are very suitable for this movie. The so-called sadness comes from the heart, and resentment arises from the heart, which is fully reflected in "Sad City". People are like plasticine. They were...

Carmel 2022-04-24 07:01:24

After watching it twice, I began to understand why a friend ranked this film at the top of his film career. Only then did I realize that Hou Hsiao-hsien's long shots, mid-range and long-range scenes are beautiful, not leaving, if not leaving, as indifferent as a bystander Calm, exuding a kind of...

Ruby 2022-04-24 07:01:24

In the 1989 movie Tony Leung was still very young , when the deaf boy he played smiled when he wrote these words, there were stars twinkling in his eyes at that time... I suddenly felt how could there be such a stunner as Tony Leung from when I was young to now From the sunshine to the elegant and...