A film by Anthony Chen
With: Yeo Yann Yann, Koh Jia Ler, Andi Lim, Regene Lim
A life-altering event forces 21-year-old Junyang and his girlfriend to face reality. At the same time, while Junyang’s father is struggling to hold their modest life together, a woman enters his life and both generations are forced to redefine their family.
Our rate : –
Anthony Chen serves up a melodrama that is heavy-handed and rushed, paying little attention to details, nuances, or subtle observations, constantly favoring a simplified and simplistic vision, dwelling on descriptions of everyday life, and proceeding with abrupt and demonstrative acceleration to let time pass. Rather dismaying as a whole, even bordering on the ridiculous at its core, and in its desire to bounce back as it unfolds—the scenes don’t drag on, but the film does. — Antony Chen nevertheless has the good idea of seeking to develop his characters, reserving for them an unexpected emotional trajectory in the script, even if here too, we are very far from great literary scope or cinematic epic, but rather a very basic emotional vision set in a Singapore that is ultimately very poorly portrayed, as it is observed superficially, in the present.