plot introduction:
summer, hot, sweat, blue sky, youth, every second is the blood rippling years. The
tail, a long time ago, everyone had it. It seemed to have no effect and then gradually disappeared.
Ayue is a sunny girl who loves rock and roll, but she dropped out of school because of congenital heart disease. There is a cat named Xia Xia staying with her all day long. A Yue plays the guitar, rides a bicycle, and wanders around the country.
During the period when Ayue was absent from school, Chen Huaijun, a super student in the school, fell in love with a beautiful female teacher. In exchange for the fate of being ordered to drop out of school by the school, there was another high school student wandering in the country.
Ayue and Chen Huaijun have become wandering companions. Ayue carefully reads every emotion of Chen Huaijun and relieves him of the sadness in his heart. Day by day, Chen Huaijun's mood improved, but he didn't understand Ah Yue's expectations and enthusiasm for life and music.
Every day, these two drop-out high school students ride bicycles between the blue rice fields under the blue sky. They found a wasteland under the high-speed rail that the adults could not wait for, and became a secret daily base. The Japanese transfer students at
school do not love football, and their unfettered personality swayed in their own football world vividly. The sweat of youth attracted the eyes of another top student, Zheng Wenli. Not broken, love football but always last, but this does not hinder the meeting of these four young people at the secret base.
In this wasteland under the high-speed rail, they play unscrupulously. This confluence gradually becomes a force, a force of encouragement and joy, facing the future together, facing the troubles in life together, together Enjoy having fun, and even rescue the depressed father and son who attempted suicide together. Under the clear sky, the intimate friendship of the four people is reflected. Each of them has expectations, desires and secrets for the future. Whether life is ordinary or exciting, smooth or setback, it can always turn everything into fun. This is the power of summer, the power of youth.
In summer, this cat never recognizes his tail, always thinking that it is someone else's thing, every time you see it, bite it, that is the greatest pleasure that will never disappear. Just like our youth, little things can produce infinite laughter.
"YA" is the YoungAdult movie. It mostly describes the lives of young people aged fifteen to nineteen. Generally speaking, they use the traditional story line of starting, inheriting, transferring and combining. Several young people Strive towards the goal and grow after overcoming setbacks.
There are many such fresh literary youth movies in Taiwan, from "Blue Door" to Midsummer Light Year to "Etudes" and then "Summer Tail". In addition to the content, there is an uncontrollable youth like the fresh sea breeze. The taste comes from time to time while watching the movie. No matter the picture or the dialogue, there is always a feeling of deja vu. At the beginning of the movie, the positive people's small life, three generations of women danced in their own way accompanied by a little rock music, this kind of warm and positive life attitude is very warm. The beauty of southern Taiwan, the clear air, the azure blue sky, and the vast green rice fields are shining under the director's hands. The color of the picture is a prerequisite for the youth film. At this point, the director not only captured the beauty of the picture, but also the use of hand-held photography gave the film a lot of texture. At the beginning and end of the film, the director used a lot of hand-held lenses, which also allowed the film to add a lot of life to the pure love.
"Summer's Tail" revealed the director Zheng Wentang's feelings and miss for youth. During Zheng Wentang's youth, due to financial constraints, he could not afford to eat the ice cream room or drink coffee, and most of them were riding bicycles. Therefore, in the film, there are girls who are riding bicycles and holding guitars singing everywhere, and there are people who are wandering around on bicycles, but there is not even a student who appears with a cigarette butt. This is a good interpretation of the director's high school. The image of life is a good interpretation of the eternal youth in our hearts. It is so clean, so innocent, and occasionally a little rebellious, full of hope for the future, and the feeling of being a hero lives in our hearts. The shot schedule of
"Summer's Tail" has a strong color of Shunji Iwai. The rural scenery of Tainan under the high-speed rail, the green rice fields, and the roaring sounds of trains passing by from time to time can easily associate with the many situations in "Youth Video Game Story". Zheng Wentang's shots are beautiful, showing young people with sceneryThe state of mind is mirrored.
When youth blooms beautifully in the sun, there is fresh wind, blue sky, bright light, beautiful people, and guitars, running water, and endless flowers. This is the age when white shirts are always floating. Who can not miss those young days. It turns out that what gradually disappears like a tail is our youth.
Director link
Zheng Wentang: a native of Yilan, Taiwan, graduated from the film team of the Department of Drama of Cultural University, began to work in film in 1982, during which he worked as a cutscene, assistant director, producer, screenwriter, and director. The characters in Zheng Wentang's films seem to seldom talk efficiently. It is often closed and silent. Sometimes, they suddenly talk too much, but they speak their own language, using a hypnotic rhythm. You really have to squeeze a cold sweat for them, fearing that they will be out of place and will be blinded by others... But the amazing thing is that from "Dream Tribe" to the 2004 Tokyo Film Festival's work "Passing", to "Deep Sea" Zheng Wentang’s works seem to be rooted in such a hypothesis or belief: Although the isolation and isolation of human beings are so absolute, it is still possible, and suddenly there is a connection and understanding.
After Zheng Wentang's unremitting efforts, his films have finally been widely recognized over the years. His first feature film, the movie "Dream Tribe" (2002), won the Best Picture Award of Critics Week at the Venice Film Festival. Since then, there has been a second feature feature film "After" (2004) and a third feature film "Deep Sea" (2005). "Summer's Tail" is his 2007 work, and it has received rave reviews once it was released. In addition to these, Zheng Wentang also created and directed TV dramas and wrote scripts, and once participated in stage plays across the board.
