Flitting back in time and across Mindscapes, "One Day" is difficult to understand and easy to feel. The story of two people in love with meta-dreams are posed like Russian dolls, Mr. artistic director Hou Chi-Jan is not in the narrative structure overworked, but by evoking rhapsodic feeling of youth and a persistent air of mystery.
Tune in to the narrative languid frequency, repetition and time series mesmeric tangled requires careful and patient film lovers. This reduces the commercial hopes, however, Hou Hsiao Hsien attached as executive producer. Festivals should be more sensitive.
Singing (Nikki Hsieh Hsin-Ying), a young woman raised in the southern port city of Kaohsiung's mother, operates the ferry service cadets military base on the island of Taiwan. On the bridge, he sees a younger son (Bryan Shu-Hao Chang) and compass just like the one his father left before disappearing into the sea. His face gives him a sense of deja vu.
He wakes up at night to find a ferry empty, with the exception of an Indian man who runs after him with an ax. Hiding inside the warehouse, re-encounters cadet, who narrates his sleep. The second dimension, the song moves to Taipei. Meet and date of survey cadet in the center, where students rent to control cells, to sleep, perchance to dream ...
Filmed largely on the ferry and around wet areas like the beach, pier and swimming, the film is a poetic cruise in the subconscious. The "dream" creates more dreams, opening parallel worlds where memory through with present and future, where thoughts and actions were indistinguishable.
The final change recalls the narrative structure of "The Girl Who Leapt through Time" and "same." Hou But not only capture the ephemeral quality of first love, but a unique experience for the people of Taiwan. The ferry, the military camp study center are the numbers of the collective memory of youth, dedicated to military service and studying for exams in college.
More than a mood piece of a drama, "One Day" owes much to the compositions DOP Mahua Feng, who in turn carefully balanced sensual and impressionistic, with a light and soft shadows, fog. Particularly evocative shots of the couple are considering a blurred background, symbolizing his future uncertain. The score for piano by Satie feel melancholy.
To celebrate the dream state, some scenes are repeated until they begin to grate, especially those involving the Indian yells in his (unsubtitled) dialect.
