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Sylvia ChangRene LiuAngelica LeeKate Yeung
DIRECTOR
Sylvia Chang
SYNOPSICS
Er shi san shi si shi (2004) is a Mandarin,Cantonese movie. Sylvia Chang has directed this movie. Sylvia Chang,Rene Liu,Angelica Lee,Kate Yeung are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2004. Er shi san shi si shi (2004) is considered one of the best Comedy,Drama,Music,Romance,Sport movie in India and around the world.
Three women in different stages of their lives - 20, 30, 40 - face the hardships of the female existence.
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Er shi san shi si shi (2004) Reviews
Girl Power!
This movie is about the best 30 years of a woman's life. 20 - feeling alive and trying new things 30 - feeling jaded and hopes for stability 40 - the rebirth of a women Sylvia Chang has once again proven herself as a powerful director! The 3 stories intertwine very well, while they don't affect each other, you are never really out of the story because you see the other leads at the background. Li Sinje proves herself to be a great actress, holding her own aside the older and more established actresses. Her story las alot of sexual tension in it, but somehow in a way that most girls would understand. I admire Rene Liu for her powerful potrayal, it is a Rene that you haven seen before. Sylvia, one great looking 40-something, she just draws you deep into the story... This is one of the light-hearted taiwanese movie that is rarely seen in taiwanese cinema. Everything about this movie is great. It is very different in style and mood from the last few movies that Sylvia Chang has done before. One last thing to note. The concept of the movie actually started as an album. One day Rene Liu mentioned to Sylvia Chang, why don't the 3 of them do an album called 20:30:40, make it total girl power album. Sylvia loved the idea, so while making the album. She decided to make it into a movie as well. And boy am I glad she did!!! If not, we wouldn't have 3 award-winning actresses portraying such powerful acting in one of the greatest movie! Worth every cent of the ticket.
A film beyond female world
Being a female film, 20/30/40 starts from a female angle to look at life at different stages of age. The stories of Rene Liu and Sylvia Chang are indeed quite stereotype and traditional. Liu, because of lack of confidence in man and marriage under the influence of her mother, has a wild love and sex life. Chang has divorced after finding her husband having an affair and crazily look for a new companion but finally in vain. The magic of the film comes from the director catering to the inner feeling of characters, their thoughts and the actors' superb acting performance. There are two scenes very touching. One is when Chang doing volunteer work in the hospital she said life is a passage where people around you keep leaving you. It's a bitter monologue but then she said to the patient `if people don't leave me, how can I take care of you now?' The heavy tone is simply turned into an easy laughing mood. It's touching but not emotional. The other one is when Liu finally has settled down with the man who bought her piano. Liu was sitting in front of the piano with the man's daughter who was playing a song; the man's hand touched her daughter and then moved to the shoulders of Liu. The audiences see only the man's hands touching Liu; yet at the same time feel his heart touching Liu too. The warm feeling coming from Liu's face is such a contrast compared with the previous Liu in love or sex with the other guys. The story of Li Sin Je is a more brave trial. The relationship she has with the other girl is for audience a fresh experience. It's pure, sensational yet sexually related, a test about the extent of love. The director has dealt with it in a very sensible way giving the characters high spiritual innocence and visually no faulty behaviour. I've seen an interview with the director where she said she believed this kind of friendship exists in a lot of cases between two close teenage girls but it's not lesbian love. I would prefer to say she's given a space in the film for audiences to decide what they think this relationship between the two girls is than having defined it. No matter what one might think, he can't deny it's so pure and innocent. The blending of the three stories deserves a high credit to the director and is one of the successes. Without this, the film wouldn't have been so profound in content. The characters of the three stories are so close together even though they don't know each other in the film. The ending is the 3 females, though after very tough period of trial in catching what they aim for, have all failed (Liu also failed because she'd been looking for passion, not settle down). They fail but they don't regret, still brave to face their future and accept what has happened to them a part of their lives. Destiny only chooses what to happen to them but can't decide for them what they should do and go for. They still choose their own ways. They look like loser; actually they are winner. It's such a great film and we should not simply regard it as a female film because the extent it covers and message it has conveyed is certainly beyond female world. A man like me watched it with little tears wetting my eyes.
Xin Dong (1999) was better
Spoilers I have heard too many radio interviews of the three leading ladies to be immune from their effect. The deeply ingrained concept, before I saw the movie, was that 20 is about having all the time in the world and nothing to lose, 30 is about crossroads and choices and 40 is about having no choice and hence complete liberation. While there is a fair amount of truth in these generalizations, there is not much originality. The movie is made up of three stories (or sketches, which would be a better description), written separately by the three actresses Sylvia Chang (40), Rene Liu (30) and Lee Sinje (20). Obviously, one would not expect the brilliant interconnection of the three as in Inarritu's films. The three sketches are independent and whatever links we see are entirely inconsequential. One thought that I have though (my own, not from listening to the radio interviews), is that these three could very well be the same person, at different cross-sections of her life. Of the three sketches, 30 and 40 depict things that work themselves through daily, if not hourly, in all big cities in every continent: a flight attendant at a crossroad with her romantic interludes and a divorcee searching for a new balance in her life. With limited scope to work with, the two award-winning actresses do whatever they can with some good results here and there. They did not get much help though. 30's two romantic objects are mere cardboard, although the final encounter gets a bit better. 40's episode oscillates between run-of-the-mill comedy and occasional nice touches. Back to the radio interview, Lee Sinje said that when she delivered her script to director Sylvia Chang, she wasn't sure if it would be accepted. Without even blinking, Chang took it. This sketch of 20 is certainly more refreshing than the other two, tackling the relationship between two girls that tread subtly between friendship and sexual love. The performance of Lee, also award-winning, does not suffer in comparison with Chang and Liu, although all three might be said to be `acting themselves', to a degree. Worth mentioning is Kate Yeung who, playing the other girl, is billed in the credit under `Introducing'. Based on her performance, she has every right to be billed as the fourth lead. A star-studded supporting cast (Anthony Wong, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Ren Xian Qi) ensures a good draw. On the opening night I went to, there were a lot of laughs from people who must have felt compelled to laugh simply because Anthony Wong was speaking a line. While on the whole somewhat sketchy, the movie is enjoyable, but not as good as director Chang's previous work Xin Dong (1999) which goes considerably deeper into the characters.
simply awesome...
That movie is by far the best I've seen in a long time. And one thing speaks for itself. There was big applause in the Theater after the movie. That's a thing I haven't seen in years. Every thing just fits: the characters, the story,... Those three women actually do not meet each other, but their destinies do in a unique way. The movie is very funny. I laughed tears. But You never get the feeling that the topic has been made rediculous. It's still a serious. But still you have to consider this a romantic comedy that's just made for watching on Valentines Day (well, I did that).
20:30:40 (2004)
'20:30:40' is about 3 decades worth of being a woman. Analysing and showcasing these different moments, possibly the most important moments, of any woman's life. First we have Xiao Jie (Angelica Lee) who has recently left her family behind to start life as a pop idol in a girl duo. The two girls become close and begin to have feelings for one another. Xiang Xiang (Rene Liu) is confused begin a 30 year old flight attendant and has a string of men after her. Finally lily (Sylvia Chang) is 40 and feeling it, her husband has left her for another family he has and she runs her florist while trying to start a new life. Throughout the three stories there are subtle connections but the three protagonists never really meet one another. This allows Sylvia Chang (as director and writer) to explore each woman and the effect they have on those around them to their full effect. A number of secondary characters, mainly being the men in their lives, pop up and serve each story well. Anthony Wong plays a rather comedic but also tragic record producer who fails at supplying the young girls with a good career. All the performances in this film are beautiful, each main actress capturing the confusion of their characters as well as keeping them strong. Without the brilliant writing and direction of Chang though this film would probably fall flat on its face as a dodgy female empowerment propaganda film. Chang notes the fragility of the female, but doesn't deny that the love of a good man can and does help. It is also obvious that Chang has experienced moments not unlike those in the film. The film may be a bit too positive, although Angelica Lee's segment is quite heartbreaking, the film is obviously a pick-me-up film that shows the bright side of life.