Film has not dramatic plot and it seems pointless. maybe because its a little absurd. time passes and makes men's pride, selfishness and needs meaningless. but film shows this can interest us to more permanent issues as same as death of mother and grandmother influenced Ah-Hsiao. so deaths are not for crying and making suspension rather its like review a memento. The movie is long and slow (to make us live with characters) but when the era came to end and grandmother died I felt how soon time passes. The only thing that annoyed me was that director did not introduce the relations between the characters and place and it made me confused at beginning of sequences (it seems he does not believe in it). exclusive of this the movie is great and Hsiao-Hsien Hou totally succeed in making a poetic movie with absurdity and human relations
Review of A Time to Live and a Time to Die
