Movie Review: Our times
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Our Times is a 2015 Taiwanese romance film directed by Frankie Chen. It is the directorial debut of Chen, who previously directed television dramas. The film stars Vivian Sung as Lin Cheng-Hsin, an ordinary schoolgirl, and Darren Wang as Hsu Tai-yu, the school’s notorious gang leader.
The film opens in the present day, where Lin Cheng-hsin (Joe Chen) is an ordinary office worker who leads a stressful life. Her name, “Cheng-hsin”, literally means “sincere of heart”, reflecting her hardworking nature which often gets her ridiculed by her younger subordinates. Dejected, she listens to a cassette recording of an old Andy Lau song. This brings her back to her high school days, when she was an ordinary high school girl, who idolised Lau and lived a simple, carefree life. She had a crush on Ouyang Fei-Fan, (Dino Lee), the school’s most popular male student, and had two good girlfriends.
One day, 17 year old Lin receives a chain letter, warning her of impending doom if she does not pass the message on. And then she passes it on to Darren Wang, the school’s notorious gangster boss, her math teacher and Dewi Chien, the school’s most popular girl. While Tai-yu reads the letter, he gets hit by a car. After wedding out the letter’s sender, the angry Tai-yu makes Cheng-hsin his ‘friend’ and forces her to run errands for him in exchange for leaving Ouyang alone, thus making her his errand-girl.
By chance, Cheng-hsin accidentally overhears a conversation between Min-min and Ouyang and discovers that they are in a secret relationship. Dejected, she creates an alliance with Tai-yu, who likes Tao Min-min, to break the couple up. Throughout the course of events, Cheng-hsin and Tai-yu begin to understand each other better, and their friendship evolves as they began to learn a thing or two about true love. Eventually, they develop feelings for each other.
Tai-yu later discovers that he has a blood clot in his brain, caused by the car accident and further exacerbated by his frequent brawling and falls. His parents decide to send him overseas, leaving Cheng-hsin with no way to contact him in an era without social media. 18 years later, Cheng-hsin leaves her unhappy job and relationship upon having rediscovered herself. She is still unable to book a ticket to an Andy Lau concert that is set to take place in Taipei, but fate intervenes and allows Lau to act as the means by which Lin Cheng-hsin and Hsu Tai-yu are reunited as adults.
Love grows where it isn’t expected in this endearing romantic comedy coming of age movie. This movie taught me a lot. I’ve learned many things in this movie. I would love to recommend this to everyone who was able to see my blog. This movie is not just about romance, above it all, friendship is the key for everything. Nowadays, people chose american movie or series but me, we need to appreciate the wonderful movie made by other countries. I promise that this movie will teach you a lot of things and it will give you a message that will definitely make you cry.
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