#abrightersummerday

Painstaking Time taken: 7hrs This is so tough for someone like me who only knows a few about light and shadow. #artstudiopro #jensclaessensbrush #digitalart #illustration #abrightersummerday #edwardyang #movies https://www.instagram.com/p/CjZmeJUrPoG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

How scary were your teenage years? Our National hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, famously quoted: “Ang Kabataan ang pag-asa ng Bayan” (”Children are the the future of this country”). What does country even mean? Is the future really ours to completely shape into our own molding? Or will the sins of the past ultimately cloud our lofty visions. This film pulls out a mirror and shows us how scary it actually is, to be tasked of carrying forward our nationalism, our identity. It’s not because we lack courage, but because growing up kills our innocence. The things that were supposed to scare us, no longer even makes us blink.

A Brighter Summer Day (2011) - Directed by Eric Yang. Though now decades old, Yang’s fourth feature retains an inexhaustible freshness that speaks to viewers the world over. Like a Taiwanese Rebel Without a Cause made with the gravity and epic sweep of The Godfather, the film, which has more than a hundred speaking parts, is above all a vision, in terms of both place and time. The place is Taipei, Yang’s home and the setting and subject of all seven of his features. As for time, we might consider two meanings. The years depicted are 1960–61, a particular juncture in modern Taiwanese history. But the time we witness is also that of adolescence, with all its inner turmoil, outer self-consciousness, and obsessive quest for identity. #GinkgoJournal #ABrighterSummerDay #Taiwan #TaiwanFilm #EdwardYang #Film #Cinema #TaiwaneseNewWave #CriterionCollection #Taipei

A Brighter Summer Day (2011) - Directed by Eric Yang. For non-Taiwanese viewers, the world Yang conjures can have the paradoxical effect of seeming foreign yet also oddly familiar. Surely the anxieties and confusions of youth give it universal emotional touchstones. Yet, especially for viewers who recall the Eisenhower/ Kennedy era, there’s also an almost dreamlike uncanniness to the ways Yang summons a time when surly young rebels were wild for American rock and roll, Japanese comic books, and John Wayne movies. Perhaps more vividly than any other movie, A Brighter Summer Day immortalizes the moment when teen pop culture went global, forging an effervescent but lasting bridge between East and West. #GinkgoJournal #ABrighterSummerDay #Taiwan #TaiwanFilm #EdwardYang #Film #Cinema #TaiwaneseNewWave #CriterionCollection #Taipei

「這個世界是不會變的，你以為你是誰啊？」 #abrightersummerday #edwardyang

十年再見#楊德昌，難掩興奮心情。其實佢一直都冇離開過。❤️ #edwardyang #aoneandatwo #abrightersummerday #taiwancinema

Time for a near four hours of feel good? #edwardyang #abrightersummerday #taiwanesecinema #pourover #hailsatananddrinkcoffee

#JYSVJ Day 11 of 13: Places #acousticguitar #song #montage #abrightersummerday #dream （在 City of Reseda）