A Brighter Summer Day: Nature vs Nurture

'A young boy experiences his first love, his friendships and life's injustices when growing up in 1960s Taiwan.'
A Brighter Summer Day (1991) - dir. Edward Yang
Aisatsana (102) - Aphex Twin
Video Essay - Written and Edited by Toby Roberts

[@tannercaruthers5535]

What a truly perfect film, even just watching your video about it made me start crying again! That last scene! Edward Yang was such a master, it is sad we lost him early but his work was unbelievable.

[@screen4646]

arguably the best to have ever lived

[@stefan2serb]

I was trying to explain how good this movie was to my girlfriend (who hadn’t seen it) and when I described the last scene I burst out crying. It was pathetic 😂 What a movie!

[@megalosauru]

Man, A Brighter Summer Day has the most devastating final shot I've ever seen in a film produced by the Chinese language cinema.

[@kalinomia]

R you talking about the mom putting the clothes up to dry whilst listening to the radio?

[@introwade5204]

i recently watched it without knowing it was 4 hours long, and im glad. If i knew, i could have miss a truly masterpiece. Loved your analisis, and what you say its true, the director its a genius in the art of telling life, yiyi and eat drink man woman are mundane but beatifull and entertaining in a way only yang knows how. Great video and greetings from Argentina.

[@screen4646]

I don't understand how Yang does it!

[@myeself8825]

😂sorry but eat drink man woman was by An Lee, they both represent taiwanese cinema though

[@introwade5204]

@@myeself8825 yes it is! I dont know why i thought it were yangs haha

[@gorecki4612]

One of the most beautiful films i will ever see

[@joshcooper3980]

committing 4 hours of my life to this is a big deal, but this vid might just make me do it

[@PieterSirks]

do it

[@myeself8825]

i watched twice actually, so there goes 8 hours😢 but totally worth it

[@TheSabado215]

Gorgeous film.

[@screen4646]

not as gorgeous as you

[@nikhilganesh6547]

Great video. Yang is the best filmmaker of all time. Have you seen Taipei Story?

[@screen4646]

It's on my watchlist! I've got The Terrorizers next!

[@Adrian-sr5jv]

i saw it last night, INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE VIDEO MAN….

[@maxlamont2090]

beautiful

[@S00funnyeh]

great video

[@screen4646]

Thank you!!

[@stefan2serb]

I watched this last night for the first time and can’t stop thinking about it. Will have to watch the rest of Yang’s work now. I’ve also subscribed to see the rest of your work! 🙌