Brighter Summer Day, A (BLU-RAY)
Brighter Summer Day, A (BLU-RAY)
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BLU-RAY EDITION. The fourth film by Edward Yang, a sprawling examination of youth-teen gangs, 1949 Taiwanese societal developments, and American pop-culture starring a then 15-year old Chang Chen, is considered by many critics to be Yang's defining masterpiece. The film is an extraordinarily large project for a Chinese-language film, not only for its duration of almost four hours, but also for its involvement of more than 100 amateur actors in different roles. The film depicts a great array of political and existential themes such as the need of guidance during adolescence, the loss of Taiwan’s cultural identity in favour of the growingly influential Western culture, the unrestrained violence caused by an uneasy socio-political juncture, the desire of migrating towards an expectedly better country, the hardships of parenthood, the awkwardly naive and sometimes dangerous way in which teenagers convey love and sex, the downside of multi-faceted friendship, the strained differences between social classes forced to coexist in the same dismal place, and, especially, the fatal and irreversible consequences of an aimless life and a confused upbringing.

Edward Yang--Taiwan--1991--237 mins.

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