“The closer the deadline, the less inspired I get.”
My second film by Taiwanese director Edward Yang that I’ve seen - the first being his 2000 masterpiece Yi Yi, and while I found Terrorizers a little confusing sometimes, I thought it was a pretty great film. Like I said, I found myself wondering multiple times where the film was going, but once certain things clicked I found the film a lot more engaging. I think it was more on me just taking a little bit to get into this, rather than the film being particularly weak in the first half. With that said however, I’m not sure how much of my disconnect in the early portions of the picture was down to my mood and how much had to do with the actual movie.
I found the characters to be pretty interesting, and although I know Yi Yi came out almost a decade and a half after Terrorizers, many of the characters of the of seem to portray similar themes to Yi Yi, but in a darker, bleaker manner. Also much like Yi Yi, the cinematography in Terrorizers is gorgeous. The way Yang captures architecture, both exterior and interior, is beautiful in this film, and the camera being primarily at head-level when there are humans in frame forces the viewer to watch the characters objectively, almost like they are in the room, observing.
“The closer the deadline, the less inspired I get.”
My second film by Taiwanese director Edward Yang that I’ve seen - the first being his 2000 masterpiece Yi Yi, and while I found Terrorizers a little confusing sometimes, I thought it was a pretty great film. Like I said, I found myself wondering multiple times where the film was going, but once certain things clicked I found the film a lot more engaging. I think it was more on me just taking a little bit to get into this, rather than the film being particularly weak in the first half. With that said however, I’m not sure how much of my disconnect in the early portions of the picture was down to my mood and how much had to do with the actual movie.
I found the characters to be pretty interesting, and although I know Yi Yi came out almost a decade and a half after Terrorizers, many of the characters of the of seem to portray similar themes to Yi Yi, but in a darker, bleaker manner. Also much like Yi Yi, the cinematography in Terrorizers is gorgeous. The way Yang captures architecture, both exterior and interior, is beautiful in this film, and the camera being primarily at head-level when there are humans in frame forces the viewer to watch the characters objectively, almost like they are in the room, observing.
