What Time Is It There? Comments

  • Rachelle 2022-04-23 07:04:42

    The customs in Taiwan and our southern Fujian (Quanzhou) area are quite similar, and we also have a saying that deceased relatives will turn into animals and come back to "visit...

  • Virgil 2022-04-23 07:04:42

    1. Suddenly someone passed by, and the chilling desertion had a sustenance, and all the clocks I met from then on should be adjusted to her speed. 2. Love is an illusion, the real thing is loneliness, accompanied by gods, ghosts and fish, and you can steal the rest of your life. 3. Every time I dream of my father, I wake up crying. 4. Like a stick in the throat, tears welling up in the...

  • Uriah 2022-04-23 07:04:42

    pathos. I also sat where Chen Xiangqi sat...

  • Jamil 2022-04-23 07:04:42

    This one is really great! The whole process is laughing, peeing in a plastic bag, peeing in a bottle and filling the flowers! Although Paris and Taipei are far apart, the unification through the clock seems to harmonize and share the loneliness. The father made dumplings and called Kang Lai to eat and should not wait for some kind of lingering lingering at the family after his death. Finally, he appeared in the same space in Paris as Xiang Qi and became a separated immigrant (?) The mother was...

  • Anais 2022-04-23 07:04:42

    It is my favorite Tsai Ming-liang. The design of the scenes and shots are almost the same as those of the two films I watched before. I probably realized Cai Mingliang's style. After the heroine went to Paris, it became very interesting. Two characters, one is in a different place, the language barrier leads to aphasia and loneliness, the other Being in my hometown, unable to communicate with others, also caused aphasia and loneliness, and there were many cross-cuts between the two. In the end,...

  • Antonio 2022-03-20 09:02:57

    Lonely, to the bone. The English name is "7 to 400 Blows", and the heroine meets the teenager (now middle-aged and elderly) who was hit by 400. Cai Mingliang, you are too good! Xiaokang sells watches on the flyover, the kind of watches that can be smashed on the stone railings all the time, why are they not being sold...

  • Geoffrey 2022-03-20 09:02:57

    Because of this film, I fell in love with "Four Hundred Downs". This tells me a common sense: in order to fall in love with French films, you must first fall in love with Taiwanese films. Then together we have a strong love for Taiwanese and French...

  • Jewell 2022-03-20 09:02:57

    Rewatch. The people in Tsai Mingliang's films are so closed off. The relationship between them and the people they are in contact with seems to be a kind of inevitability from a previous life, but they are not so harmonious. That small piece is magnified throughout the body, creating an overall alienating and even bizarre effect. If we see some of these similar qualities in ourselves at the same time, it all feels...

  • Toney 2022-03-20 09:02:57

    Every individual is lonely and lonely. Not only Xiaokang and Xiangqi have a time difference, but also between mother and son and father. This kind of loneliness comes from the lack of satisfaction or its endlessness. It is the mother calling her husband to take a pillow and masturbating in the dark. It is Xiaokang who threw away the cake and had sex with a prostitute in the car. They all lost their boxes. Father walking towards the spinning Ferris wheel is like...

  • Icie 2022-03-20 09:02:57

    Okay, this one is a bit boring. too lonely. An attempt to visualize time. The fish eating cockroaches, the box rafting, and the father's appearance at the end were amazing, I've been to that park but forgot its name. The monk on the flyover, Chiang Kai-shek next to the portrait, interesting details. Now I can see Director Cai's 3 iconic techniques, 1. A close-up crying scene, 2. I am not happy without a parallel editing, and 3. I have been using the movie to confess to the male...

Extended Reading
  • Fabian 2022-04-19 09:02:58

    reversible time

    In this film, time is a reversible existence: Xiaokang tampered with various clocks again and again, and even attempted to tamper with the time of the entire city. As a film that pays tribute to Truffaut, Tsai Ming-liang deliberately chose Taipei and Paris as the background for the characters'...

  • Micaela 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    "What Time Are You Over There": Expressing Emotions in Prose

    "What Time Are You Over There" is a very boring movie to watch. Of course, it also continues Tsai Mingliang's consistent style, trying to establish the audience's emotions in the aimless storytelling, and thus express the meaning that the director himself wants to talk about.

    At the literary level,...

What Time Is It There? quotes

  • [first lines]

    Father: Hsiao Kang? Hsiao Kang?

  • Shiang-chyi: Come on. Sell me this one.

    Hsiao-kang: It'd be bad luck to own my watch.

    Shiang-chyi: Why?

    Hsiao-kang: Someone in my family just died. I'm in mourning. I can't sell it to you.