Your Name Engraved Herein (刻在我心底的名字) | MOVIE REACTION
Added 2023-08-18 17:43:57 +0000 UTCNot the story I thought I was getting, but equally as beautiful.
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I loved this movie.
D.A. Rowley
2024-01-29 03:58:54 +0000 UTCI'm glad this tidbit was of interest to someone! And omg, good luck with Mandarin. I lived in China for a year and my Mandarin made no progress, it just wasn't sticking.
Sundays
2023-09-21 03:40:36 +0000 UTCWow! Thank you for that tidbit. If you could not tell, I am mildly Taiwan obsessed. I do a good job of keeping up on cultural info as a Mandarin student and a Japan resident, but I know I am missing so much, so I am really happy to know that the significance to the guy on the footbridge.
Yemi 語学者 (BLJapanTaiwan)
2023-09-18 03:41:57 +0000 UTCOMG this is so much more info that I didn't know. I love this movie and loved your reaction! The sound track, acting and cinematography on this is SOO good! I both LOVE and DETEST Birdy as a character, he is bat shit crazy and expresses himself in a time where so much was censored BUT AT THE SAME TIME BIRDY SIR??? The frustration with Birdy and how he was dealing with his feelings in the last half of the movie is unreal!! Especially going to Jian's house and outing him to his family but not wanting to own up himself!?
Felleng Nthane
2023-09-05 18:46:27 +0000 UTCAlso the outfit the character is wearing is based off an outfit Chi chia-wei used to wear (https://twitter.com/Nasus_24011989/status/1353773629692108802)
Sundays
2023-09-01 23:45:44 +0000 UTCAnother tidbit! When they go to Taipei to "mourn" the president and there's the scene of the single man protesting who gets aggressively removed by the plain coats, you might recall they say something along the lines of "its Chi Chia-wei again". Chi Chia-wei is actually a real person and is a very important figure in the fight for LGBT+ rights in Taiwan. People refer to him as, "the first Taiwanese man to come out" because in 1986 he was the first person to come out as gay on national tv. It was his petition that eventually lead to Taiwan becoming the only country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
Sundays
2023-09-01 23:43:25 +0000 UTCYay! Thank you for the reaction! (Pardon me, kind sir, while I write a whole essay.) First off, Edward Chen, the Jia Han actor... when interviewed said he chooses LGBTQ+ roles because his sister is a lesbian and this is a way to support her. He is also in a short drama called Red Balloon which has very similar vibes. He stars opposite Jason Tauh who is in History 5 in that one. The sign at the president's funeral said something like, "We are representing [insert school name here]." I am pretty sure they just used the death to get out of school, but Birdie being the ham that he is started with that show of fake crying. Let me just say, I love Birdie as a character. I love the way he just does whatever he feels like from almost drowning himself for a personal best at holding his breath to stealing movie theatre posters. Would I want to Birdie's bestie in real life? Aw hell naw. I would be convinced we were always 27 seconds away from getting arrested. The balloon stunt felt epic to me. And one party receiving more punishment felt real. Sad that we are still at this place in the world, where certain people will still face harsher punishment because of their innate situation. I feel like this being set right after martial law is probably also affecting how harsh everything is. I imagine that during martial law, schools would have operated like little armies and the school they go to does not seem to want to let go of that, even if the government mandates they let girls in. The song that plays on the jukebox, and then at the competition and then over their ending as adults is called "This World". I really like it because of the line, "There is a little hope, there is a little disappointment." In Mandarin, that is "Yo yidian xiwang, yo yidian shiwang" and something about the fact that the words hope and disappointment sound almost exactly alike and they put them together like that. The song Jia Han plays on the phone and that they sing in the younger selves ending is the song you reacted to before. You reacted to the ending theme version by Crowd Lu and this is the version by Edward Chen. The Wan-an thing. So Wan-an means goodnight, but as Jia Han's date explains, it also stands for Wo Ai Ni, Ai, Ni, or I love you, love you. So Jia Han texts that into Birdie's pager and he ignores it. But then has the gall to write wan-an in hanzi 晚安 on the giant balloon he steals for Ban Ban. But, I did not notice this the first time I watched... that time as adults, when Jia Han is going back to his hotel, they say goodnight, wan-an, like 6 times. And the first couple I heard as good night, and after that I heard "I still love you." Of course, we will probably never know which parts of the show are real and which are imagined. But I like to think most of the high school life is real and meeting as adults is imagined. I like that you mention closure, because I feel like this film IS the director's closure. I like that they do an open ending, and I feel like even the director wants to reimagine the end. And I also like that they finish with a reimagining of their younger selves, happy and free. Final note... I read a Youtube comment saying they loved the movie, but they wished the couple had a better ending. I said there and I will say again. This story is almost true, this is the real world. If we want better endings, we need to make a better world. Like you said, we may never get to the ideal world, but we need to take the steps we can when we can.
Yemi 語学者 (BLJapanTaiwan)
2023-08-19 20:47:11 +0000 UTCOMG ma'am, this is excellence right here
David Avila
2023-08-18 19:49:04 +0000 UTC
