Yi Yi is a Taiwanese film directed by Edward Young. The film is about the struggles a man name NJ and his family faces. The film is seen through three points of view; the father NJ, his son Yang-Yang, and the daughter Ting-Ting. NJ lives with his wife Min-Min, and two kids in a nice high-rise building. His mother-in-law has a stroke, goes into a coma. The family takes turns talking to her. One day, NJ came home and found his wife crying stating she has nothing to tell her mother. Min-Min feels her life is lacking so she joins a religious retreat. Soon after, NJ runs into his first love who is now married as well. NJ’s computer company is on the fence whether or not to work with a well known game designer. NJ meets up with his first love again; they flirt but do not commit infidelity. While all of this is going on Ting-Ting, blames herself for her grandmothers a coma. She begins to explore new things as all teenagers do. Yang-yang tries to find out the truth about adulthood.
The movie is about the currents of life. The characters in the film all face situations that can happen any where in the world. Yi Yi showed the ups and downs of one’s daily life. The film touched on a lot of areas of human existence.
Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy this film. I felt this movie was dragged out and very dull. Several scenes were shots of characters thinking, for example, when NJ was by the ocean as the sun was going down. A lot of the time the camera would stay outside of the place the characters were in which threw me off. There was barley any action scenes in this film. The movie is relatable because everyone goes through crisis in their lifetime. Maybe if the crisis the characters were going through were more devastating the film might have been better. Another thing that annoyed me about this film was certain scenes were misleading. When Yang-Yang jumped into the pool I thought he drowned, you heard him make a funny noise and the camera never showed him resurface. Later on he comes home with his clothes soaked and actually happened to him.
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