Been trying to get something about this film up for Throwback Sundays for a while now. Finally found this perfect, Ebert and Roeper review clip from 2000.
Edward Yang's Yi Yi (One and a Two), is a very patient film. Characters' specific problems sometimes are drowned by the downtown noise of the city. Remember in Manhattan, Woody Allen compared a couple's problems under a planatarium's night view of the universe as a whole? Well for my money, this is an even more effective technique. One used by Yang to size up the problems humanity creates for itself. Which no matter what, cannot compete with the chaos (and beauty) of a large, noisy cityscape.
This is also where I think I may have developed my fascination with shooting characters through glass windows.
We remember a great director's, great movie this week. Enjoy:
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