VidMate
Free YouTube video & music downloader
ACTOR
Kang-sheng LeeKuei-Mei YangYi-Ching LuShiang-chyi Chen
DIRECTOR
Ming-liang Tsai
SYNOPSICS
Jiao you (2013) is a Mandarin movie. Ming-liang Tsai has directed this movie. Kang-sheng Lee,Kuei-Mei Yang,Yi-Ching Lu,Shiang-chyi Chen are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2013. Jiao you (2013) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
Jiao you (2013) Trailers
Same Actors
Same Director
Jiao you (2013) Reviews
The anguish of living on the fringe.
My first Tsai Ming Liang film was his fifty minute odyssey of a monk moving very slowly through Journey To The West. I unexpectedly loved it, so I was ready for any challenges he had for me in his second film of the year Stray Dogs. Yes, it has an abundance of slowly paced and ethereal shots, but here he had a loose narrative. It's all about the anguish of living on the fringe and the film perfectly evokes that emotion as characters silently battle the elements. There's not a shot quite like the scene where its lead sings tearfully while holding up a sign. However, the film lacks an essential economy to make it worth all its 138 minutes, even if it is beautifully shot for the most part. It needed more time in the editing room, and more time in the writers room at that. There's not enough layers to the characters and story to make it completely satisfying, besides potential political meanings that flew over my head. Its best when its eliciting a devastating trapped sensation with an eternal cycle offering no escape. 7/10
Wow!
This is a reflexive movie. Probably, it's not for everyone out there. It's one of the most slow paced movies I've ever seen. There are scenes that have a load of anguish and desperation that I never experienced in any other movie recently. This movie makes you stop for a moment and meditate about your very everyday life. The only "friendly" scene in the entire movie is when the kids start to pick up names for the piece of cabbage they have. There are scenes that seemed to take forever and you're invited to come along and enjoy the dark tranquility. Paradoxically, it causes you a feeling of discomfort because we don't really know if we are really relaxed with everything. Sometimes, silence and tranquility can be deceiving. This movie came to remind us about our loss of serenity in our very everyday lives. It tests you to the point of you feeling uncomfortable before the long, looong, loooooooooong takes. It's not only just a movie, it's a deep experience within our own selves, our sanity, our capacity of taking a seat, stop for a moment and look beyond the environment that surrounds us, for us to enjoy the little simpler things, to ignore the noise, the problems and everything, stop going so fast and face the view, the silence and face our own existence, our moments, to make our peace with our own time again. And I really hope that I can do this again at some moment in my life. Because life is going in such a hurry and such a speed that we kinda lost track of ourselves. So it was a worthy and rewarding experience. Once again, and this time at last, because it was the last movie, I thank the SESC's "37º Festival International de Cinema de São Paulo" event for an appropriate and decent closure and for another great film.
They're called EDITING and PACING!
As I sat and watched "Stray Dog", I felt very annoyed. Again and again and again, scenes where nothing particular is happening, the camera remained there for a VERY long time. In each case, the film could have been edited and you would have had roughly the same effect...without boring the audience. So, when you show two men in ponchos in the rain holding signs, you don't NEED to show this scene for a full minute and then return to do the same thing again-- especially when the men aren't doing anything other than holding signs!! The same goes for the introduction, as you see a lady staring at her kids as they sleep...for the longest time!! In addition, showing a guy taking a leak is another sign that this is a self-indulgent sort of film from director Ming-liang Tsai. Editing and pacing are important to most directors, but not apparently in this case! As a result, a decent story is marred unnecessarily by the direction that tends to bore and annoy many viewers. I know I sure felt both. What SHOULD have been an important film about a homeless family on the fringes instead is an interminable bore. We get it that the folks are depressed and that's why they do nothing...but think about the audience having to watch this.
Waste of a possible good story
Being a student of film, heard a lot about Tsai ming Liyang in my institute. Actually heard many good reviews about his other film 'The Whole'. Then I went to see the movie 'Stray Dogs' at the Kolkata International Film Festival 2013. And believe me, it gave me pain. Now if you consider the last sentence of the above paragraph as a positive one, then you would be wrong. The story of a deceased family, who find it difficult to manage their daily living food is said in such a way, at a point it seemed boring.There are obviously master touch in showing the feeling of the father.specially with the cabbage sequence, it seemed as a melancholic poetry. But then, what happened to the family, were they in distress from the very beginning, is not very clear. Mainly the background of the characters is the thing that lacks in the film.That's why the credibility of the characters comes to question sometimes. And then comes the length of the shots.Wallah....Had this film been shot in 35 mm film, I don't know whether this structure of film could have been achieved or not. Only because someone has the benefit of digital film making, that doesn't give anyone the liberty to test the patience of the audience I reckon. (Spoiler) I don't know whether it would be a spoiler or not, but I have to say, the last two shots of the films are so long, that it seemed at a point, that this film is never ending. Even with this structure, this film could have been 25-30 minutes shorter. At the end I can only say, a very good prospect and possibility of telling a good story has been lost, with some rare touchy treatments..
Falls A Bit Short Of Being A Great Film
Tsai Ming-Liangs film Stray Dogs falls a bit short of being a great film but its not a disappointing one either. An existential and slow paced character study of a homeless drunk father and his two children living as the titles says "Stray Dogs". The films story reflects the desperation and misery of being homeless and a supermarket worker who becomes fond of the children and tries to rescue them from there misery. Downfall of the film is the careless editing of the long meandering scenes that seems to wear out there welcome after two minutes. This film could have been a great one if it only ran under two hours or less.