After seeing like a dozen Korean,
Chinese, Japanese movies, I can definitely say that either their movies are
subtle, sincere, simple, meaningful yet amazing or they are over the top action
with blood and gore, so much so that they are not everybody's cup of coffee. The
movie that I saw today was a Taiwanese movie made in 2005 from the first
category. How cool is the idea of shooting three separate stories set in three
different times (1911, 1966 and 2005) played by same lead actors. Sounds
familiar? Yeah, we saw a Hindi movie (Teri Meri Kahaani) based on the same idea but that's where the
comparison ends as this one is such a simple and adorable movie – I am sure no
one can make anything similar to this in India from the current generation and
the one guy who made similar stuff is long gone. This movie reminded me big
time of Satyajit Ray with its simplicity, almost no dialogues, hardly any
background score but just simple / soothing love songs playing in the
background. It's a must watch for serious and meaningful cinema lovers.
Story 1: A time for love (1966): This
story has hardly any dialogues – only damn good love songs as background score.
It’s a very simple story of a guy going for military training, falls in love
with a girl where he plays snooker, they write letters to each other while he
is away. He comes back after couple of years only to find that she is already
left the place. Somehow finds her house, visits her mom, has a lead, will he be
able to get her? Is she still waiting for him all these years? Story 2: A time
for freedom (1911): This story has no dialogues either – almost a mute movie
with captions as dialogues. Based on the life and times of a courtesan, who
looks forward to one of his clients as her ticket to freedom. Will she get it
in the end? Would he marry her and take her away? Story 3: A time for youth
(2005): Final story of a young couple, madly in love. Both of them are
suffering from two different diseases – yet they live a good life in each
others company. Based on the current times with mobile phones, computer and
technology. Even this section too has hardly any dialogues but the simple
treatment and visually strong movie never makes you miss the interaction as
everything is quite simple and understandable.
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