Initial release: November 9, 2012 (Taiwan)
Director: Hou Chi-Jan
Running time: 110 minutes
Music composed by: Owen Wang
Screenplay: Shing-Ming Ho, Hou Chi-Jan, Autumn Chen, Kelly Y.L. Yang
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Synopsis
This is a cute romantic love story which takes place in a neighbourhood where there are many “cram schools”. A young man works at a copy shop and is stuck in the daily boring routine of making copies for test papers. On one of these monotonous days, he finds a drawing of a sheep on the back of a piece of test paper, which leads him to an unexpected journey. (mydramalist.com)
This is a cute romantic love story which takes place in a neighbourhood where there are many “cram schools”. A young man works at a copy shop and is stuck in the daily boring routine of making copies for test papers. On one of these monotonous days, he finds a drawing of a sheep on the back of a piece of test paper, which leads him to an unexpected journey. (mydramalist.com)
At first, i got this movie from my friends and what made me interest is because the main actor, Kai Ko. Maybe you ever watched or heard about him, he is famous for his romance-comedy movie before entitled You Are The Apple of My Eye, as the main character. Based from that movie, so i decided to watch it. Well, the main reason is because he is handsome haha and the movie You Are The Apple is just fun to watch for a teenage girls. Actaully I'm not the kind of a teenage girl who likes to watch romance-drama movies, but You Are The Apple of My Eye is just great with its not over-cliche-romance and comedies between the friendship. It's a different type of romance movie, it's fresh, and if you're a boy i bet you will have fun watching it because there are some boys-things-only in this movie. If you haven't watch it, you should give it a go.
The actors and actress acts well, as they express the love, sad, and confusion for waiting. I like the main girl character whose plays by Guo Shu Yao, she is weird, yet cute on her own way. I love how she patiently counts to one hundred when wait for something to happen, she's unique. For sure, i also loveee the main boy whose plays by Kai Ko haha. I love when he do nice things to people, with his principle one kindness a day. Also by some side characters story such as; the handsome friedrice man whose apparently the owner of 1314 pager, the weird man whose owned the copy shop, and the money-oriented girl at the office. But i'm still not quite sure about the noodle-man whose like to show up suddenly, because at the very end after the credits the copy shop owner meet him, maybe he is a boss idk.
The plot itself was good. I love to watch a simple slice of life movie like this, not so much tense and dreamy. It's just a slice of life and some flashback moments which explains more about the story, especially the girl's past. Also it was surprising when actually the 1314 pager owner is the fried-rice man, with his tragedic love story. I love how everyone has their own heartbroken past, because in real life everyone all have a moment like that for sure. I thought that the similar case of the main girl and the fried rice man is telling us something, because there are some cases in real life couple whose lived apart and going long distance relationship and finally coudn't handle it because of the distance and trust between them. It simply tells how hard to wait for someone without being really next to each other.
After all, what i really likes about this movie is the cinematography, and some effects such as; the stop-motion at the very beginning and the effect at the end when the students are throwing the paper planes, because it gives some sort of dramatic feels especially when suddenly his ex girlfriend show up from the crowd and his surroundings just stop. It is the moment when the ex girlfriend whose the boy been searching finally came and the effect is just like the time stops as his speechless emotion.
Though overall, i really enjoyed this movie and the philosophy or morals between it. Oh yeah the morals is given by the noodle man when he is telling his past, which he thought some tragedy moments really needs to happened so someone could change or deserve to be better. It is just the same for some of the characters such as; the woman who lost her dog needed to lost it until finally she found more happiness by three kittens that she found, also the main boy needs to left by her girlfriend so he could meet the unique girl after and get some fun in his life. It just simply that bad things happened to us so we could change to be better and deserve better from before.
Well, i quite enjoyed this movie so i couldn't found a lot of stuff to be criticize. One thing that bothering me is why the boy just followed the weird copy shop owner when they first met, maybe he is a bad guy or something. Or maybe i'm just being pessimist. Also, is it okay to draws in the exam paper? If it in Indonesia, i bet we will get scolded. For the people who doesn't like some linear, slice of life, realistic movie, then it won't impress you. It is also not such a cute romantic couple, but they are cute the way they are.
8 / 10
