In Those Years, Hong Kong and Taiwan Movies Taught Us How to Love and Let Go

Claim your own heartbeat in other people's stories. This book is a handwritten love letter to Hong Kong and Taiwan movies. It is not satisfied with taking stock of classics, but uses scalpel-like strokes to cut through the tears of laughter in "Westward Journey" and the drunkenness in "A Westward Journey", allowing those light and shadows that have been soaked by the years to ooze fresh warmth again. It leads us into the deep sea of ​​film and salvages the emotional codes of a generation. It turns out that Stephen Chow's silence when he turned around and Wong Kar-wai's dim streetlight in the rain had already laid the foundation for our lives. This is a film review, but also a time archeology. When images of fast food overwhelm your vision, this book quietly reminds you: some stars are always worth looking up to, and some emotions never expire. If you've ever been struck by a line late one night, this book will hold your hand and say, "Look, we're all here."

This book is like chatting with friends and revisiting old movies such as "Westward Journey" and "The King of Comedy". The author talks about the moments when we laughed and cried, allowing us to see our own youth in other people's stories. Nowadays, I watch a lot of short videos, but they are a bit touching and still fresh when I turn them over.

The author's writing style is excellent, and every film review is like a time projector, with Stephen Chow's wry smile and Wong Kar-Wai's rain bubbling inside. Turning a page is like eating dried tangerine peel plums. The sourness and sweetness are all youth debts. Recommended for late-night eating - popcorn would be a shame.

Reading the reviews of these old films is like picking up a box of faded audio tapes. When it is played, Stephen Chow is teaching us to cry, and Wong Kar-Wai is teaching us to get drunk. There was dust from the video room floating between the pages of the book. After reading it, I realized that my youth had already signed in.

The author understands our generation very well. The miss, persistence and relief in those movies are written in such detail that it makes people think of something about themselves while watching it. It's not the kind of film review that throws away the book bag, but more like a friend drinking tea and reminiscing about the clips that have been watched countless times but are still moving.

As a generation born in the 1980s, the only thing that has not treated our generation badly is music and movies. I watched it carefully, and I miss the era when Hong Kong and Taiwan movies were most popular. The first chapter of "Journey to the West" attracted me very much. I read it twice and still couldn't get enough of it. In the end, we all became "that dog".

Full of memories to kill.

It's very touching and heart-warming, as if all the countless mysteries that had been difficult to solve were solved at this moment. That era was so good.

Maybe when you reach a certain age, your tear ducts are relatively developed, and you can't resist the memory-killing words. It's a pity that youth is no longer there, but fortunately, light, shadow and words are eternal.

A collection of film reviews of sixteen classic Hong Kong and Taiwan movies!

Those who like it will like it very much, because the interpretation of classic Hong Kong and Taiwan movies of the year is really powerful, accurate and unique.

I thought that the author would write Westward Journey, and I thought of Sweetness. However, I never thought that there would be an old corpse in a mountain village. It's really great. The analysis of a horror movie is so penetrating!