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Plot: The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror”, mainland China’s political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.
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The greatest film of “The Greater China” cinema
Simply one of the best films ever made and certainly the best to have come out of China, Taiwan or Hong Kong. Forget about traumatic Taiwanese history, forget about other “epic” films from mainland China, or Taiwan, or Hong Kong. This one is one of the most profound statements about human condition and the relentless power of history. You can physically feel the winds of history blowing through a small hospital in the mountains, or a house of the person who will succumb to the inevitable, or a railway car caught in the middle of a massacre. Hou Hsiao-Hsien doesn’t reconstruct history, he shows you human beings caught unawares and unable to cope with a totally unexpected avalanche of events destined to change their lives. Acting is superb, the mute character played by Tony Leung Chiu Wai (who, quite prosaically, couldn’t speak Hokkien and had to be made mute) will haunt you for a very long time. One of the most underrated films from one of the most underrated directors. Spend two and a half hours of your life watching this, it’s worth it. 10 out of 10.
A very moving time travel to post-war Taiwan
This film is definitely one of the best historical film i have ever seen!… putting aside all those clichés most filmmakers are tend to use: there is no such thing as heroic portrayal of martyrs or the use of extremely artificial dramatic art. That makes this film believable and, compared to others, very unique.
Normally you would have a narrator who is telling you the story from his point of view. Now, i don’t want to say that i dismiss this way of narration but “A city of sadness” does not need such a narrator; in fact it would shatter the special specific atmosphere of this movie if that would be the case. Without definitive narrative elements, the staging normally involves (narration/music/DP etc), the viewer gets the feeling that he is able to see for himself what the lives of those people were like when WWII ended. It is fascinating to witness how this very sober staging is still able to evoke strong emotions within the viewer. This is due to the directors vision but also to the cast which did an amazing job.
It was also very clever to have the deaf Wen-Ch’ing as the main character so the viewer can sympathize with him very easily: like Wen-Ch’ing the viewer is kind of caught up within the political turbulence and is not to able react like he would want because he is mute … and is therefore not able to speak up in a loud voice to stop the violence. He is forced to watch.
Even today the topic Taiwan/China isn’t solved at all. After watching this film people will surely get a better understanding why the struggle between China and Taiwan is so filled with anger, sadness, fury …
so … that’s definitely a must-see!! 😉
Original Language zh
Runtime 2 hr 37 min (157 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama, History
Director Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer T’ien-wen Chu, Nien-Jen Wu
Actors Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen
Country Hong Kong, Taiwan
Awards 8 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm