Our Times
Our Times
| 20 November 2015 (USA)
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Office worker Truly Lin goes on a journey through her memories. 20 years ago, she had a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. Truly teams up with Taiyu to tear the golden couple apart and help each other to get the ones they love.

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hasnarb

We can't help but to feel nostalgic while watching this movie. It is definitely able to bring us back to be age of our innocent youth. The movie tells us about the feelings that teenagers face around that age, and we can't help to reminisce the memories. The story is quite simple. The girl is a huge fan of an idol, and at the same time, she has a crush on the school's most popular boy. And while pursuing her love, she finds out that her crush is close with the school's most popular girl. And she then teams up with the school's gangster who likes the popular girl, to tear them apart. And so on.It's like, we've all been there, so people may think that this story is a little bit cliché. Sure, it's quite predictable at some parts. But this movie still successfully captures the ups and downs the adolescents face. The hardships of being honest to yourself, the innocent love we have for our idols, and the discovery of love that they are yet to understand; this movie has it all.I personally really like this movie as it strangely gives me warmth. I recommend this to those who love the simple stories from coming of age movies. This gives the same vibe as an also a Taiwanese movie, You're The Apple of My Eye. Watch both, you'll love both <3

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Akhil Balachandran

Truly Lin is a hard-working optimist trapped in a busy job and she really misses her old school life. It tells the flashback story of Truly Lin's high school life and She has a crush on Ouyang Fei Fan, the school's most popular male student. She teams up with Taiyu, school's notorious gangster boy to help each other win their dream dates. For a directorial debut, this film did very well. A well scripted and the image of Taiwan in the 1990s was fascinating. Pop songs, hairstyles, letters and teenage obsession with star Lau all made a strong impression of the story. It was a pleasure to watch it and it has all ingredients for a teenage love story. Overall, I really enjoyed it and it's worth a shot.

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thatguydude

first off im a guy and watched this with my gf only knowing it being a comedy movie. i have seen "you are the apple of my eye" and that had to be one of my favorite movies. "you are the apple of my eye" does a great job of showing a guys side of a love story. i was surprised this movie was similar but in a good way. so if you loved "you are the apple of my eye" you will surely love this one. it has enough funny moments and some good heart felt moments for sure.the best part i like here ***SPOILERS************ was this foreshadowing that took me by surprise even though i didn't blink an eye when watching the movie. the foreshadowing im talking about is when we find out taiyu suffers a dangerous head injury. they show him on occasion getting hit hard on the head but you think nothing of it since he was portraying a bad ass image you figure it meant nothing. but NOPE! they show the reason why he missed school and all the flashbacks. IMO best part of the movie was that. annnd now the only thing i hate was the ending. i know this movie isn't real but they really stretched it out and kind of made it weak by having taiyu being the "ticket guy" at the end. i'm more of the bitter sweet ending person that's why i loved you are the apple of my eye so much. if this movie ended with Truly just reminiscing at her office and make taiyu sadly passed away from head trauma or be fine but lost in contact from Truly i would actually enjoyed it more. obviously that's just me. ****END OF SPOILERS*********Main point is this is one great great memorable movie. definitely going in as one of my favorites.

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Jiabao Lin

I just want to talk about the story's timeline and actors without talking about any shooting skills.As for the leading actress (Yunye Song), she does really well in the movie. To be a pure girl in senior high school, she is undoubtedly good at it. Being the leading actress in Café·Waiting·Love (2014) made her know clearly what she is good at. In this movie, she turned to be a ugly girl at the beginning, and became a pretty girl because of falling in love. Thousands of people say that the most vulgar movie will take the chance of owning the best title, I support this point of view, one could easily figure out what will happen next in this movie, but you are still willing to wait for it to take place. Like all love stories in 1990s' Taiwan, this story is pure and make people feel relaxed. When you are watching it, you felt like taking a nap. When all the story came to an end, you just thought all the story was in your SWEET DREAM.The leading actor (Dalu Wang) is a born rascal and his eye can tell everything. Judging from his eye, his love and anger are evidential. Gotten the first chance to be the leading actor, he grab the chance like Zhendong Ke in You Are The Apple of My Eye, I believe he will be the next generation famous stars in China.The scene is of great beauty, everything is set according the past, there is no contradiction with history in this movie.There are lots of bonus in this movie, Andy Lau in flesh, Jerry Yan in flesh, even Jiayi Shen (an character in You Are The Apple of My Eye) are in this movie.But I only can vote it 9 out of 10, because there are some plots the same as those in You Are The Apple Of My Eye, which I voted 10 out of 10 and have watched for more than 5 times.

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