What Time Is It There? Comments

  • Matt 2023-08-31 08:44:49

    Symbol film. A friend commented: "It's so beautiful, it's ridiculous!" I don't care about the symbolic nature of the images, I care about the directionality of the symbols; so some places are dreamlike, and some are a little too technical. After reading it, I also have the urge to adjust all the clocks in my place to another time; what time are you over...

  • Violette 2023-08-23 12:19:40

    what time is it there? Greetings looking at each other across the air, but not conveyed to the other side. After experiencing everything, I gained more loneliness, miss the watch, is it him? Or is it an instinctive fear of...

  • Jaylen 2023-08-19 20:43:19

    "a cinema of slowness": 1. Tsai Ming-liang's first feature film without any camera movement, the first time he collaborated with a foreign photographer, adding mixed temperature lighting, high-contrast images and poetry to his signature style Aperture changes of , high-contrast lighting (indoor urination scene) creates a kind of concentrated stillness Not much, but a feeling that it didn't happen. In long takes, the rhythm is achieved "within each shot", conveyed by "the life of the object...

  • Americo 2023-07-25 08:22:36

    Cai Mingliang's magic power is to make people indulge in a...

  • Darius 2023-07-19 03:56:31

    #中明明明# The image of the slow-moving watch in the film is amazing, it transcends the hole in the wall in the director's previous work. The two thus create a curious but insubstantial connection, giving a parallel narrative an unconventional meaning. Cai is very good at capturing the despairing loneliness of people's hearts. The male protagonist's completely whimsical and self-conscious unrequited love actually makes people so empathetic. At the end, when Leod appeared, I was really shocked. This...

  • Florencio 2023-07-05 04:01:39

    The father played by Miao Tian appeared at the end, Li Xiangqi fell asleep on the park bench, Miao Tian picked up Li Xiangqi's suitcase from the water, and then walked to the huge Ferris wheel. The beginning and the end are the figure of the father, who is like the incarnation of Cai Mingliang, overlooking the emotions and loneliness of the...

  • Ephraim 2023-06-17 15:25:17

    It was the first time I watched Director Cai's film, and I didn't have the right to say anything. I just felt that he said everything I wanted to say, although I couldn't tell exactly what I wanted to...

  • Verdie 2023-06-15 19:33:50

    what time is it there? Time, distance, loneliness; consolation, singularity, food color; time is action, distance is property, man is... pointer....

  • Lina 2023-05-29 04:50:06

    People still can't get rid of loneliness. ....

  • Chris 2023-05-27 12:04:13

    The people who have left are so obsessed, lonely, watching and watching, thinking of the characters in Wang Jiachong's movies, Miao Tianshu's every appearance is also very exciting, and Cai's sense of...

Extended Reading
  • Margarita 2022-04-20 09:02:36

    The human heart is an island

    If we film the daily life of ordinary people into a movie and enlarge it on the screen, will it be so boring, or even more boring? But isn't ordinary life like this, the world of one person is very long, and the carnival of a group of people is very unreal, because soon it will be alone again.
    Such...

  • Davonte 2022-04-19 09:02:58

    Elope with loneliness

    I am very used to the combination of Cai Mingliang and Li Kangsheng. Director Cai Mingliang, actor Li Kangsheng. His story, his interpretation. Their films go all the way like a long corridor, pushing little by little deeper into the darkness, getting closer to the essence of light little by...

What Time Is It There? quotes

  • Woman in Paris: Oh, Taiwan. I've been there. It's fun.

  • [first lines]

    Father: Hsiao Kang? Hsiao Kang?