My favorite movie of Tsai Ming-liang is "A Cloud in the Sky". It's too shocking. Modern people's ability to love has been exploited, and they are exploited to the point of being unable to love the person they should love. Yet thirsty, thirsty for love. This film has found a carrier, a perfect combination of metaphor and noumenon. The other films, "The Hole" and "Long Live Love" are also good.
This "What Time Are You Over There" may be because I was rather sleepy when I watched it, so I felt it was too boring. Time, clocks, this carrier looks like the face-changing in Jin Ji-de's "Time", but it maintains its own style too much, and its visibility is worth discussing.
I think the theme is still consistent, modern people's desire for love. Desire for love because love is not available. Xiaokang had no choice but to take a female customer who went to France as the object of his fantasies, and set the clocks down to Paris time for her to establish a connection with her. As for the girl, she lives alone in a country where no English is spoken, with no one to communicate with, and it is even difficult to survive. A Hong Kong girl she meets by chance brings her a little comfort. After her father's death, her mother also fell into a state of unrequited love. She could only hope for the return of her father's soul, which made the family dim and became more and more nervous.
When love has nowhere to go, desire becomes a substitute. Finally, almost on the same night, Xiaokang stayed in the night street and finished venting against the street girl in the car. The mother reappeared in full costume and completed a masturbation to the portrait of her father, while Xiang Qi from Paris lay on the same bed as the Hong Kong girl and kissed tentatively.
However, after all, desire cannot replace love, so we see that the prostitute secretly took the box of Xiaokang's watch, and the sisterly love between Xiangqi and the Hong Kong girl did not develop, and she put on the old watch she bought from Xiaokang. , and left with luggage.
The ending of the film is very meaningful. Xiangqi is asleep on a bench in the park. The suitcase is first dragged away, and then thrown into the pool to slowly float down. An old man - Xiaokang's father (?) picked up the suitcase and then Slowly approach the Ferris wheel.
what time is it there? This is a story of this side and the other side. Only when you can't find love on this side will you entrust your love to the other side. The well-off is placed in Paris, and the mother is placed in the underworld. In fact, life on the other side is also very lonely. All people are alone, all people yearn for love, so why can't love come true?
Tsai Ming-liang, a movie, takes the trouble to state the same reality, but what is the answer?
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