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?

  • 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.

  • Hsiao-kang: So we have dinner at midnight now?

    Mother: What do you know? Can't we go along with your dad's time?

Extended Reading
  • 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, the setting of the magical reality was simply magical. When I was looking at the works of the students in our school before, one of the works left a deep impression on me, that is, a fixed camera shot of a person sitting and eating bread for ten minutes, and reading poetry in the last few minutes. Now I know this is what I learned. Department (Bi Gan, studying Poetry), it is better not to imitate this kind of student works.

  • Eugenia 2022-02-07 14:52:39

    The outward world is a lie, the inward world is a dilemma. The heart is disturbed, the city is the disease of death. Tens of thousands of people are walking on the streets, thousands of people are walking in their own pain, bowing their heads and lining up to walk toward their own doomsday and their own judgment. Thousands of people have the same loneliness, and thousands of people are different from you. Fortunately, you are his secret, and he is your secret, but you two do not know each other, and acquaintance is in vain. You are always in Taiwan and he is in Paris.