Plot: Lin Truly reminisced the fun times in her high
school with friends. Set in 1994, the story takes you in the innocence of
youth, beauty of first love, sting of a heartache and friendships made. Part of
her memory was being a hardcore fangirl of Andy Lau and admiring Ou Yang as
the school’s most popular guy. Moreover, he tamed the bad guy Hzu Tai You and
became friends with him that changed the course of her life.
Commentaries:
The liberty of youth is one that cannot be exchanged
by the complicated reality of the adult world. ‘Our Times’ is a story that is
familiar scene among teenagers and at the same time, nostalgic to the young adult
viewers. The movie is something that is irresistible to all ages as soon as you
are appreciative of its witty, feisty and heartfelt offering. But why is this
Taiwanese film a huge hit among East Asian movie-goers? Is it because of the
gangster and the charismatic Hzu Tai You that girls are aiming to repeatedly admire on the big screen, or because of the warm-hearted and cute Truly Lin that has
captured Hzu Tai You's attention? One thing is for sure and that is, this drama
has made a storm because teenagers can associate themselves to the characters
while millennials can’t help but enjoy the movie as much. On the other note,
the story has a cliché plot where I was reminded of plenty of the dramas I’ve seen
and loved such as “Crazy little thing called love” which is a teen romance
movie from Thailand, “Reply Me 1997” which is a Kdrama hit in 2012 that
established tVN’s popularity, “In A Good Way” which is a feel good drama about
friendship set in the 90s and lastly, I couldn’t help but notice the similarity
between Hzu Tai You and Dao Ming Shi from Meteor Garden wherein both are hot
tempered characters. So I made the
research and according to the articles online, I shouldn’t be surprised because
F4 used to be talents of the same agency as Darren Wang (Hzu Tai You) and
Vivian Sung (Truly Lin) managed by Angie Chai. To be honest, Darren Wang has
the aura of Dao Ming Shi not only as Hzu Tai You but as a person himself.
