Yi Yi

Yi Yi is a Chines Film directed by Edward Yang, who picked up the best Director prize at Cannes 2000. Its a very very long movie about the daily life of a modern family in Taipei, Taiwan. This film starts with a wedding and ends with a funeral. It centers around a computor executive NJ ( Nien-Jen Wu) who is facing a midlife crisis from problems from work and from runing into his first love Sherry (Ke Suyun) who he had abruptly left with no explanation. She is married to an American, but stull remains heartbroken over NJ, and together, they see the possibility of rekindling their long-dormant feelings for one another.At the same time his mother-in-law has suffered a stroke and slipped into a coma, and his wife Min-Min (Elaine Jin) deals with her depression by turning to a religious cult.

While this is all going on his daughter Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee) is a teenager who starts dating her best friends boyfriend "Fatty" ( Yupang Chang), and his son Yang-Tang ( Jonathan Chang) finds his own ways of dealing with both life in general and a group of bullying older girls in particular.

As the film comes to a end NJ relized that his life wouldnt have been any different and is better that he didn't go run off wit Sherry. Min-Min comes to the realization that her life was just as empty and meaningless at the Buddhist monastery,making her life no more meaningful than it was before. And Ting-Ting's control result in her heartbreak.

This film is really long but its a film that you end up liking once its over. My favorite scene is when NJ and Sherry recall the excitement of holding hands on their first date, as the film cuts and we see Fatty and Ting-Ting holding hands on their own first date, while the voice-over continues. Over all its i give it a A-