Genre: Romance, Drama
Starring: Rhydian Vaughan, Chang Chieh, Jennifer Chu, Wang Bo-Chieh, Lin Chi-Tai, Sheng Wei-Nian, Chiu Yi-Cheng, Chi Pei-Hui, Lee Yue-Cheng,Lu Yi-Ching
Release year: 2008
Language: Chinese - Taiwanese
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
Cheng Hsi Yen (Rhydian Vaughan) is a Big Man on Campus and the star hitter on his school's baseball team, and he's the unofficial but unquestioned leader of his circle of friends. Hsi Yen is dating a pretty girl named Hsiao Yun (Jennifer Chu) who adores him, and has befriended Hsiao Tang (Chang Cheh), a quiet, studious boy who looks up to the slugger.
But Hsi Yen's status at the school takes a tumble when he begins seeing another girl on the side; her boyfriend somehow mistakes Tang for Hsi Yen and gives him a serious beating, while Hsi Yen fails to come to his aid. Hsi Yen's failure to stand by his friend and his dalliance with another girl infuriates Yun, and she writes him a letter telling him that they're though. Yun gives the letter to Tang and asks him to deliver it to his former friend; however, Tang is secretly in love with her, and rather than deliver the note he tries to find a way to win her over. A motorcycle crash sends Hsi Yen to the hospital, and the disillusioned students become increasingly bitter when a scandal sweeps through Taiwan's professional baseball leagues
RATING: 7.75/10
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" Winds of September is a second feature for director Tom Lin, whose facility with the Taiwan Cinema house style (picturesque settings, sharp cinematography, slow pacing, generous visual storytelling) gives his film an air of quality most other features would envy. The film's superficial trappings are exceptionally impressive, such that one may feel that the obvious surface quality also exists underneath. Lin does make his characters distinct, giving them personality and charisma, but the situations don't necessarily extend beyond what's obvious. Lin sketches his situations and characters sharply, but despite the drama inherent in his subject matter, Lin never seems to draw the film away from tried-and-true formula. This is a youth film about misbehaving youth, so they're going to have fun, fight, get into trouble, and eventually get in over their heads. Ultimately, what happens to them is expected and even perfunctory because, well, that's what always happens in these films.
Not that there's anything wrong with conventional movies, especially ones that feel as quality as this one. Winds of September doesn’t do much to make it necessarily stand out, but it possesses a variety of promising, attractive new faces, plus it assembles its elements exceptionally well. Sometimes style (even non-flashy, contemplative style) can make the generic more substantial, and Tom Lin assembles a fine package, getting effective performances from his cast, and making their generic conflicts come to matter. Furthermore, Lin's portrait of Taiwan is undeniably pretty to look at it, and is beautifully captured by art director Lee Tien-Chue and cinematographer Fisher Yu. Hsinchu is more suburban than Taipei, and possesses an idyllic rural charm that perfectly fits the film's coming-of-age themes. Also, the use of the historically-accurate baseball scandal is intriguing, echoing the boys' maturation and changing emotions well. Winds of September is not fully-realized, and lacks the depth or complexity to take it to another level of achievement. But for a second feature, it's a fine effort, and one worthy of support. "
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