Review of A Brighter Summer Day (1991) by Yizhong G — 08 Feb 2009
Extremely long but hardly boring. Psychologically deep and socially acrymoneous. A Brighter Summer is an elegy for the youth passion, and the irretrivable cost by the passion. It is the youth's purity that makes the murder. He can not take it because he does not believe such a thing can occur in his pure and enclosed world. The real life case is the recent decapitation case by Zhu Haiyang in Virginia Tech.
Even though the film covers the paronoma of Taiwan society at that time, it is still too long and can easily cut within 2 hours, albeit at the cost of losing certain nostaglic and elegiac feeling.
This review of A Brighter Summer Day (1991) was written by Yizhong G on 08 Feb 2009.
A Brighter Summer Day has generally received very positive reviews.
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