[影評] 外國影評 You Are the Apple of My Eye

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You Are the Apple of My Eye
Na xie nian, wo men yi qi zhui de nu hai
(Taiwan)
By RUSSELL EDWARDS
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POWERED BY
A Sony Music Entertainment, Star Ritz production. (International sales: Sony
Music Entertainment, Taipei.) Produced by Adam Tsuei. Executive producer,
Angie Chai. Directed, written by Giddens, based on his novel "Na xie nian, wo
men yi qi zhui de nu hai."
With: Ko Chen-tung, Michelle Chen, Hao Shao-wen, Yen Sheng-yu, Tsao
Kuo-sheng, Ao-Chuan, Tsai Chang-hsien, Wan-wan, Ko Yi-hung, Wang Tsai-hua.
(Mandarin, English dialogue)
Lust leads the way but love gets lost in "You Are the Apple of My Eye," a
bawdy, sentimental but still enjoyably Taiwanese coming-of-ager. Directed by
prolific author Giddens, adapting his own autobiographical novel, this
raunchy item is perfectly pitched at Chinese youth markets, especially with
its catchy soundtrack (Sony Music's Taiwan branch co-produced with local
outfit Star Ritz). Biz has been boffo in Taiwan ($12.7 million) and Hong Kong
($1.4 million), and while the film's depiction of Taiwanese patriotism and
lewd humor may offend censors in various territories, a rich international
ancillary career awaits.
With a popular blog and more than 50 novels to his credit, Taiwanese
personality Giddens (real name Ko Ching-teng) is almost a presold commodity
domestically, spelling widespread interest in this, his feature-film debut
(he helmed one segment of the portmanteau film "L-O-V-E"). Told in flashback,
the story opens with Giddens' alter ego, Ching-teng (Ko Chen-tung), being
told to hurry because there's a bride waiting for him. With a bite of an
apple and a devilish grin, Ching-teng snaps into a verbose voiceover that
accompanies the pic throughout.

Flashing back to 1995, Ching-teng introduces his coterie of buddies from his
South Taiwan high school, where sex, not study, is their chief preoccupation.
Given that one character is named Boner (Yen Sheng-yu), and Ching-teng has a
penchant for looking at Japanese porn and walking around the house naked, the
film boasts a sexual frankness that could get it nicknamed "Taiwanese Pie."

Caught participating in a masturbation contest at the back of a classroom,
Ching-teng is relocated to a seat in front of Shen Chia-yi (Michelle Chen),
the overachieving, puritanical coed he and all his friends are in love with.
Dismayed by Ching-teng's academic apathy, Chia-yi is nevertheless won over by
his display of chivalry, which rescues her from punishment on one occasion.

The narrative tracks the couple's relationship through their final year of
high school and inevitable drifting apart during their college years, at
which point the story begins to sag, unable to maintain the outlandish
phallocentric humor of its first hour, though the occasional funny gag does
slip in. Final quarter sees Giddens overestimating the charm of his own
story, but he keeps the pic entertainingly faithful to teen-romance
conventions, and even when the jokes subside, the hip music and strong sense
of nostalgia are more than sufficient to keep auds engaged.

While Giddens mostly keeps the proceedings slick and pacey (including three
musical montages), the pic's casting is its greatest asset. True to his
flamboyant clown character in every way, newcomer Ko is captivating as the
male lead; present in nearly every scene, the thesp carries the picture in
outstanding fashion. Exhibiting greater range than her co-stars, Chen makes
it easy to believe all the boys love Shen. Supporting thesps are all
splendid, though a couple of characters could easily have been dropped
without being missed.

Lensing by Chou Yi-hsien reps a potpourri of bright colors matching the
lighthearted tone, offset by the drab blues and grays of the high-school
buildings. Production companies Sony and Star Ritz don't skimp on the tech
credits, making this a much more robust production than many similar
youth-skewing Taiwanese romancers over the past decade.

Mandarin title translates as "Those Years, We Chased After the Same Girl."

Camera (color, widescreen), Chou Yi-hsien; editor, Liao Ming-yi; music, Chris
Hou; art director, Shen Chan-chih; costume designer, Hsu Li-wen; sound (Dolby
Digital), Tu Du-che Reviewed at Tokyo Film Festival (Winds of Asia-Middle
East), Oct. 24, 2011. Running time: 110 MIN.

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117946448/

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→ blueslovetw:You Are the Apple of My Eye...只看懂這句(誤) XDDD
→ williex:Taiwanese Pie....
推 LiFePO4:之前就有人說過很像美國派啦 LOL
→ zzxzero:看不懂...QQ
→ zzxzero:沒有打分數?
推 lavieboheme:這篇認為"那"是黃色青少年性喜劇的台灣派  但後段笑點
→ lavieboheme:疲弱掉 原本陽具中心的幽默逐漸轉為懷舊青少年羅曼史
→ lavieboheme:筆者認為最後四分之一九把刀高估了自身故事的魅力
→ lavieboheme:但即便幽默感消褪 音樂與懷舊感仍能讓觀眾投入
→ zerster:所以外國人覺得前半段搞笑部份比較好看?
→ lavieboheme:然後他稱讚柯震東演技有層次  但部分配角可有可無
推 notea:不夠黃的美國派
→ lavieboheme:然後也有稱讚陳妍希的range 讓人信服男孩都愛她
推 zzxzero:外國人都直接上  不會欣賞華人那種含敘的美
推 ggfree:這片外國人觀感跟我們亞洲人不同早在意料之中,因為他們成長
→ zzxzero:亞州影評大多是前面低俗  後面整個動人高潮  跟這篇相反
推 blueslovetw:其實是覺得已經先入為主拿美國派的模式套在這部片子上
→ ggfree:期不像我們被壓抑,他們的成長期是很開放自由的
推 blueslovetw:只能說阿豆仔真的不太懂..觀感角度跟節奏拿捏不太準^^
→ lavieboheme:說美國人成長期全然開放自由 也是一種刻板印象
→ zerster:外國的話 應該是男孩女孩那時期 而不是少年時期