Synapses

I've tried very hard to finish this movie, but like before, I couldn't. I really don't understand why movies out of Taiwan are always so awkward and pretentious.

When they used the kid as the narrator from the very beginning, what he recited had already turned me down and cold. It's just didn't feel natural from a kid but an article written by an adult. Then the dialogue shifted between two dialects, following the characters in different settings. I have to agree with what the sole critics said, there's a strong touch of the other two directors, Ho and Yang, even the storyline of the script was quite similar. It's a quite boring story about some Taiwanese lower class people, or shall we say, about some of the low lives that we usually couldn't care less or simply not worth knowing. Just like what I've always pointed out, the screenplay writers from Taiwan need to grow out of from their reminiscent of childhood and teenage. It's a deadbeat recycle, going nowhere, must not stay in that trap and should grow out of it. Even you guys had tried to throw in Alzheimer Disease or throw in some big word of Synapses, but if your main ingredient is such pretentious, disjointed, no big deal and simply couldn't care less same crap, there's no way to make me finish it.