Your Favorite Scene

A number of scenes are favorites for me, including the two dinner meeting scenes between NJ and Ota. The first time I watched the film, I actually began crying/tearing up during the exchange/discussion that centered around the card trick/explanation. I cannot explain the feeling that came over me at that time, it was just something that had built up inside of me while watching this family's interactions/experiences, and the simple but meaningful conversation in the restaurant near the end just hit me with so much emotion for some reason.

I very much related to NJ throughout the film (though, like the original poster, am much younger than the character in the film) ... it's all due to some "missed opportunities" and adherence to others' desires over my own at certain points in life.

But having said that, I think my favorite character is probably the daughter, and I enjoy following her pivotal scenes. I think Kelly Lee's performance is phenomenal, and the way that her first date/relationship with Fatty is connected/mirrored with NJ's time with Sherry was very effectively displayed.

Other scenes that come to mind are the numerous reflective shots involving windows/glass/mirrors that seem to add deeper meaning to the story, and of course, little Yang-Yang's moment of awakening in the darkened auditorium. His reading of the letter to his dead grandmother, stated in the first post here, is also very touching and a perfect way to wrap things up.

I received this film as my current Netflix choice about a month ago. Having watched it four times now, I still do not want to send it back for the next movie in my queue ... that is how much I love this film.

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Ohhh, I have a ton of favorite scenes...

Off the top of my head, the scene when NJ runs into his ex-girlfriend at the wedding in the beginning. She's all polite and proper, and then the elevator doors open again and she just goes off, "Why didn't you show up? I waited and waited for you!!" And in the next second, NJ's friend shows up and she's all polite again.

When Yang Yang pops the balloon and makes the girls cry.

When Yang Yang finishes swimming and he has the big smile on his face.

Several, but the most impacting for me was probably when NJ told Sherry that she was the only woman he had ever loved. The way the scene was shot, the framing with tight hallway quarters, gave it an incredible intimacy. Only moments before, we learned how much he had lived as a result of others' will, becoming the engineer and such. It was really his whole character throughout, the timid honesty in dealing with situations at home, at work. Then he tells Sherry this, but the real power of the scene is in the simplicity that follows: he has to turn around and walk about four feet back to his own room. It made the moment so human, that the magnitude of his admittance was juxtaposed with something as mundane as turning around and going to bed.

I also really liked the two main scenes with Ota.

Mine would easily be the remembrance of first love. The way Yang interweaves the scenes together just floored me.

All of the little boy's Yang Yang are lovely. I just love his great insight.

Like the one he is taking pictures to the walls in the building or the one with the photos of people's heads. In reality it has a reason. He is taking photos of mosquitos and showing people what they cannot see. Their backs. The other side. The one that they don't know about. It just shows his big curiosity for life around him.

Ota's wise words are great too. The words he used really touched me. And that scene with him and the bird in his shoulder. It was like he was synchonized with nature and the rhythm of life. Really good.

I could go on and on. All the film was special.

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Where do I start? Practically every scene with Ota and Yang Yang.





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