Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
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| PopMattersMichael BueningThis extraordinarily tender yet epic and incisive portrait of Taiwan is one of film's great fumblings towards this elusive truth. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumA powerful statement from Yang's generation about what it means to be Taiwanese, superior even to his recent masterpiece Yi Yi. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohMagnificent achievement by the late Edward Yang pushes him even higher in the pantheon of great directors. |
| The Young FolksGary ShannonA burning indictment on defining a national identity forged from those left in the dust of modern history. |
| AV ClubA.A. DowdA Brighter Summer Day's extended running time pays off: Si'r's spiral towards tragedy never stretches credibility, because Yang takes the time to let it realistically occur, showing us each factor that contributes to his slow transformation. |
| indieWireChristopher BellHere, Yang has erected a temporal experience, a completely immersive world that few artists in any medium could ever hope to do. If you love cinema, you'll love this movie. That's a promise. |
| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Andrew WrightA film that somehow manages to exist simultaneously as a painstakingly detailed coming-of-age story, a paean to the eternal awesomeness of rock and roll, and an entrancing tone poem. If this isn't a masterpiece, then what is? |
| NewcityRay PridePolitics and movies and fathers and sons and mothers and daughters and first love and scorching, insensate first jealousy... almost hallucinatory violence that feels like Greek tragedy and Proust and Shakespeare and electric shadows. |
| Village VoiceSimon AbramsYou won't relish the thought of spending four hours with Si'r, but A Brighter Summer Day will leave you wanting even more. |
| User ReviewAaron KThis film is an absolute masterpiece. Probably the most heartbreaking film I've ever seen. This movie is the antidote to so many (well intentioned though they may be) compromised historical portraits that come out of Hollywood. |
