This film is more than telling a story about something or someone. It's about youth, aging, learning; it's about shame, passions, time, life, death. The characters, the historical background (which is crucial to understand the Taiwan New Cinema filmmakers), the acts in the scene, although special and remarkable, are "only" a special path. It's the beauty behind the ordinary acts and facts, that are an inherent part of human existence and that connects human beings around the world and through time. For me, there is nothing more valuable than this kind of work. Fortunately, there are many movies like this in the cinema. Fortunately there are people like Hsiao-Hsien Hou.
Review of A Time to Live and a Time to Die
