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reversible time
Fabian 2022-04-19 09:02:58
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' activities. Xiaokang stared lonelyly at the clip of Truffaut's film "The Four Hundred Blows", while the little boy in the film, Jean Pierre Lenaud, has become an old man on the other side of the bench in Paris at the end of "What Time Are You Over There" . Because of its open character clues, spatial structure, and time assumptions, this film makes Tsai Mingliang's films have more possibilities for imagination and interpretation.
Extended Reading
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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.
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Hsiao-kang: So we have dinner at midnight now?
Mother: What do you know? Can't we go along with your dad's time?