Girls Reviews – love and growing pains in coming-of-age stories from Hong Kong to Taiwan | Video

Met can stretch credibility a bit if an actor plays the same character for a long time in one film. Richard Linklater solved this problem in Boyhood by filming in the following years; AI and antiaging effects are now optional. With this upcoming popular drama, movie producer Tracy Choi has instead created several actresses to play one woman from high school to her mid-30s. The three don’t look the same; their movements overlap but are not identical. The point is perhaps to show how big the changes in adulthood are, how unrecognizable the people we were were.

Working backwards, the girls begin to enter Hong Kongwhere 34-year-old film director Lok (Fish Liew) lives with his photographer girlfriend Bei (Jennifer Yu). Five years earlier, Choi released this film, but his career stalled. He is wayward and restless. Bei is also forced to buy a house and have a child. The film goes back 12 years, to Taiwan, when Lok was a student with orange hair, named Choi (played by Elizabeth Tang). Some of the best scenes in the film come when his parents go to Macau; Choi and his friend Qing (Han Ning) have been pretending to be friends. Then, when the four are having dinner one night, not wanting to continue, Choi grabs Qing’s hand tightly at the dinner table. He is going to his parents; they understand but don’t say anything. A movie might give us a big show, but maybe that’s how it would have happened in real life.

The movie has moments like this that stand out, even if its well-observed, well-thought-out visuals are a bit slow. Girls love each other too – they have sex pictures that don’t make sense. In the final episode in Macau, played by Natalie Hsu, Lok is 17 years old and falling head over heels for her first love. It’s a fun movie but not perfect.