#taiwan film

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

Formula 17, queer film from Taiwan, is now available on YT. LINK

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—18x2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024)

[clarience]

I wrote something!! Maybe i shld do this once a month to keep this up

[awalkonaquietnight]

The Peach Blossom Land | 1992 | Stan Lai

[juntsukamito]

Millennium Mambo (2001), Hou Hsiao-hsien

[journeytothewestresearch]

I just learned of this 1976 Taiwanese movie with the mangled English title Monkey King with 72 Magic (Thai poster shown). Why does Sun Wukong look like Richard Simmons? Who thought "Jazzercise" attire was appropriate battle dress? Found on instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsVzFuzlYX2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[yoobservador]

Vive L'Amour

Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming Liang,1994)

Cine de Taiwan

Notas:

-soledad en la ciudad

- relaciones humanas y AMOR en la contemporaneidad

- la ciudad no está hecha para nosotros (carteles)

- relación del cuerpo con otros cuerpos y el espacio

- el espacio íntimo es la REALIDAD

- Amor como solución a la soledad

- espacios despersonalizados

- Una sandía no es una sandía (transformación de todo)

- evolución del personaje

- minimalismo

[memoryfortomorrow]

范瑋琪《那個靜默的陽光午後》片尾曲

[everyfilmisaw]

洞 (The Hole) by Tsai Ming-Liang, 1998

[filmfolk]

The Terrorizers, 1986

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

Formula 17 Taiwan (2004)

[photodumppps]

— 18x2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024)

[stuckonpageone]

I highly recommend  我的少女時代 (Our Times) to anyone. Fantastic Taiwanese movie about remembering the good times in high school and learning to look beyond people’s upbringing and social standing. 

It’s definitely got “Japanese high school drama” vibes to it but it’s so much deeper than that (and actually made me cry when I watched it last night). The art direction, pacing, editing, and cinematography are all brilliant. Plus, the two leads are just perfect. I’m so glad I finally saw it!!

[infp-dreamer-artist]

小幸运 (A Little Happiness) by 田馥甄 Hebe Tian Fuzhen, the theme song of the movie “我少女的时代” (titled “Our Times” in English) that I’ve grown addicted to listening after watching it. One of this years most anticipated Taiwan romance movie. I’m a sucker for romance films, and I feel empathy for both main characters in the movie.

Through this film, I’ve learn a couple of things mentioned by the female lead Lin Zhen Xin, a glimpse of some situations from a females perspective. Though I think it only applies to certain females perspective. And yet I’ve also found myself empathizing deeply with the male lead Xu Tai Yu. This movie touches on certain factors of reality about young love. But a with touch of certain romance situations where an INFP like me could only idealize about.

There’s just so much quotes from this movie that I empathize with, watching those scenes where the quotes were mentioned gives me goosebumps, in a good way. Anyway, here are some of the quotes from the movie:

1. 很久很久以后我們才知道， 當一個女孩說她再也不理你，不是真的討厭你， 而是她很在乎你，非常非常在乎你。 Only after a long period of time, would we realize that when a girl says she won’t talk to you anymore, it doesn’t mean that she hates you. It just means that she cares a lot about you.

2. 時間會改變一個人，會改變很多事。但是，只有一件事不會被改變，那就是—回憶! Time changes a person, as well as several other things. However, the one thing that it won’t change, are memories.

3. 不要跌倒的秘訣就是─不要怕跌倒， 最糟也只是跌倒而已， 重要的是你為什么來到這里。 The trick to not falling down is not the fear of falling down. After all, the worst is just a fall, what’s more important, is why you started out in the first place.

4. 女生說沒事，就是有事；女生說沒關系，就是有關系！ When a woman says nothing is wrong, then something is wrong. When a woman says it’s okay, then it’s not okay!

5. 在那個沒有手機、沒有網路的年代,消失，是很容易的事！ During the times when there were no smartphones and Internet, it’s easy for someone to just disappear from your life altogether.

6. 沒穿過高中制服翹一次課，長大才會后悔。 If you’ve never skipped school in your school uniform before, you’ll only regret it when you’re an adult.

7. 只有我們自己才可以��定自己的樣子! We are the only ones who can determine who we want to be!

8. 原來，真的喜歡一個人，會沒有勇氣告訴他 When you really like a person, you won’t have the courage to tell her.

9. 人不需要在一個 不在乎你是誰的地方 浪費自己的人生！ We do not have to stay in a place where we do not feel belonged. It’s just a waste of our time!

10. 喜歡上一個人，是會不知不覺的。 Liking a person is something that you can’t control it just happens.

Some factors of the movie that I empathize with: -How a guy changes drastically once he’s fallen in love with a girl. -The things we cover in the face of the ones we love, not showing how we truly feel about them. -Sacrificing our chance at the one we love because we know they’ve already got an eye for someone but unbeknown to us that they have feelings for us. -We would always meet someone in our lives who we’re glad to have met and it would be the proudest moment in our lives, be it an infatuation or love. as time goes by, situations change and you’ll never know when you’ll be able to meet that person again. Eventually we learn to live with it. The times you’ve spent together are truly something that would be engraved in your heart. Perhaps it reminds me of a quote I’ve heard back then, “Don’t be sad that it’s gone, be proud that it happened.”

[burgerlai-blog]

電影隨寫 | 念念

張艾嘉的念念。

這部片講親情、講失根與歸根。 雖然去看時還在疑惑為甚麼預告片要剪的那麼支離破碎。 看完正片時才知道片子本身即是非線性敘事的。

原本沒看懂的，後來都被緊密的縫在一起，

然後你終於知道他們從哪裡來，他們背負著甚麼甚麼故事。

之前看《諸神的黃昏》時就可以看出張艾嘉很擅長利用鏡頭語言來隱喻角色的心情，是一種含蓄，但是將強烈的情感壓抑在空景裏頭。

念念的剪接、轉場，將不同時間軸上的錯綜巧合結合的活似在看舞台劇，

此方燈暗、彼方即燈亮，讓人意識到「戲劇文本」的轉化，但卻又不會令人覺得這樣的安排特別刻意。

人物念對白來帶了點劇場味道， 前幾次聽，覺得稍微矯情，

後來想想，或許世界上也有人如此坦承的這麼活著吧， 端看要把他視為優點還是缺點了。 走出電影院， 總覺得似乎剛看完了一本日本大眾��學小說， 同樣也是寫城市裡的小人物、寫細微的情感變化， 這是目前在台灣電影很少看到的風格片型， 我很欣賞。

[toranosukev]

Trailer for Seediq Bale.