Yesterday we were young, today we are old

Lavonne 2022-04-19 09:02:39

"Guling Street Teenage Murder Case" is a warm color, but it can feel the pressing cold. Anger, love, fists, blood, cruel youth, deep pain. When the dagger in Xiao Si's hand slowly and firmly inserted into Xiao Ming's belly, my heart was filled with despair of helplessness, sadness, beauty and shattering just like Xiao Si. What we believed in when we were young was suddenly without sustenance, and our young hearts were experiencing the unavoidable pain and suffering of breaking out of the cocoon. Watching such a movie, I always have to muster up a lot of courage and can't bear to face those young faces.
"Yi Yi" is really warm. Although there is also the cruelty of youth - Tingting's love, Fatty's anger, Yangyang's first love, but we finally have the opportunity to see the back of ourselves. Eight-year-old Yangyang took pictures of so many people's backs and wanted others to see his back. He was another Jian Nanjun, the voice in his father's heart. At the end, Yangyang said to her deceased mother-in-law, "I'm getting old too", I believe.
The background music stretches from beginning to end, flowing naturally like a small stream, as natural as life itself. Tingting said: If movies and life are no different, then we just need to live our lives, why go to movies?
However, we still want to see our own lives in movies.
Maybe the director is also old enough to let go of those worrying people and things, and be wise and peaceful.



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  • Pascale 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    Yang Dechang's film won the Cannes Best Director Award. The images for nearly three hours are exquisite and long. There are no big ups and downs in the film, but they have been mildly speaking. But seeing the plain truth, it makes people heavy.

  • Bernadette 2022-03-23 09:02:52

    One of the differences between realism and surrealism is that realism is easily misunderstood due to its blurred boundaries, while surrealism amplifies the director's point of view to make it clearer. So Yang Dechang is inferior to Terry Gilliam and Emir Kusturica

Yi Yi: A One and a Two... quotes

  • Ting-Ting: [Subtitled Version] Why is the world so different from what we thought it was? Now that you're awake and see it again... has it changed at all? Now I've closed my eyes... the world I see... is so beautiful.

  • Ota: Why are we afraid of the first time? Every day in life is a first time. Every morning is new. We never live the same day twice. We're never afraid of getting up every morning. Why?