尼罗河女儿1987

少女林晓阳爱看漫画，常幻想自己是细川智荣子少女漫画《尼罗河女儿》主角。她生活在繁华的台北，白天在肯德基当店员，晚上在夜校读书。晓阳与家人住在一座简陋的平房里，祖父是个风趣的老头。父亲在嘉义当员警，常年在外执勤。母亲去世后，晓阳肩负起母亲的职责，照顾上了年纪的父亲及上学的妹妹，并整天为哥哥担心。 哥哥与朋友合开一家餐厅，白天工作，晚上当小偷，却能照顾到家人。父亲和哥哥爆发冲突时，晓阳总是站在哥哥一边。她暗恋上哥哥的朋友阿三，却不知阿三爱着别人。种种事实让她感到气愤、悲伤和绝望，并在遭受打击后成熟清醒。

少女林晓阳爱看漫画，常幻想自己是细川智荣子少女漫画《尼罗河女儿》主角。她生活在繁华的台北，白天在肯德基当店员，晚上在夜校读书。晓阳与家人住在一座简陋的平房里，祖父是个风趣的老头。父亲在嘉义当员警，常年在外执勤。母亲去世后，晓阳肩负起母亲的职责，照顾上了年纪的父亲及上学的妹妹，并整天为哥哥担心。 哥哥与朋友合开一家餐厅，白天工作，晚上当小偷，却能照顾到家人。父亲和哥哥爆发冲突时，晓阳总是站在哥哥一边。她暗恋上哥哥的朋友阿三，却不知阿三爱着别人。种种事实让她感到气愤、悲伤和绝望，并在遭受打击后成熟清醒。

纽约电影节我的第一部电影：尼罗河女儿。

喜欢吴念真饰演的高中老师，他和学生说起古文“选贤与能”，如今不时兴，讲究系统，要把学生教得乖而傻；学生吵闹起来，他顺着学生谈四种放屁声，闷头板书不说一字；薪水今日到期，声称为了钱上最后一课，其实顶顶认真。他愤怒可不得不苟活，看着年轻人懵懵懂懂地浪费生命。

喜欢阿公，话痨，他无法理解小辈的忧虑，自顾自地，维系日常生活的底色。

喜欢背景音乐，没来由地放了起来，有时候落到女主的walkman上，好像是女主的心情渲染了整个荧幕，她的哀愁笼罩了台湾的天。可是天还是很平静，日子照旧要过，她抱着妹妹的小兔子，走出了纱门去。

Recently upgraded with a renovation in both DVD and BluRay formats,Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 8th feature film, DAUGHTER OF THE NILE is chronologically pigeonholed between his COMING OF AGE Trilogy (1984-1986) and TAIWANESE HISTORY Trilogy (1989-1995), which might partially account for its unregarded predicament. Its title borrows from a Japanese manga which regularly occupies the thoughts of our protagonist Hsiao-yang (Yang Lin), a 20-year-old girl juggling between moonlighting in KFC and night school, she also shoulders on the onus as a materfamilias of the household living on the fringe of the metropolis Taibei, her mother died of cancer, his father (Tsui) is perennially absent and works in the southern province, an elder brother Hsiao-fang (Kao) is a burglar, who recently opens a bar with his chums, plus, there is a younger sister (Tsai) for her to minister to.

The film meanders in Hou’s trademark slow pace through the unfazed lens of principally static frame and narrative elisions to contemplate life’s vicissitudes being inflicted on those who are very close to Hsiao-yang (males only), under its sublimely lyrical score. She carries a torch for San (Yang Fan), one of Hsiao-fang’s friends, who doesn’t reciprocate her affection and is perilously involved with a married woman with gangster background, and this relationship will eventually not just become his undoing but also torpedo Hsiao-fang’s business with a knock-on effect, what Hou tries to evoke with its youngster characters is a permeating atmosphere of angst, chagrin, ennui, unrest and nostalgia in a society casts no hope on those marginalized.

In the leading role, Taiwanese pop singer Yang Lin is a far cry from Hou’s future muses Annie Yi andShu Qi, and has no courage to shuck off her“good girl” nimbus except in one scene, trying stiltedly to play tough when confronting another classmate in the lady’s room, elsewhere, Hsiao-yang is basically distanced from the tragedies befall on her beloved ones, a dejected receptacle passively receiving the bad tidings. On the other hand, Jack Kao, who pensively withholds his usual bovver impulse, stands out as a morose chain-smoker wrong-footed by fraternal impetuosity and its repercussions. Additionally, the puppeteer Li Tianlu, whose memoirs would later be transposed by Hou into THE PUPPETMASTER (1993), sweetly plays a gabby grandfather to tone down the often depressed aura in the two-by-four abode where the family stays, his harangue on a nagging daughter-in-law and comments on farting imbues a veristic vibe which would be endearingly cherished in Hou’s tentative sortie of delving into the mindset of Taiwan’s urban youth, but there is no correlation with the Nile whatsoever.

referential points: Hou’s THE ASSASSIN (2015, 8.7/10), A CITY OF SADNESS (1989, 7.8/10), Edward Yang’s A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991, 8.9/10).