Blue Gate Crossing

Customer Reviews:

she likes him, he likes the other girl, and the girls are best friends to each other.......2007-04-16

what a cliche could be more cliche? a very bad screenplay with dialogs so bad conveniently made just for this movie. how could a junior high and high school would allow one student to swim alone at night? the school administration never worried about lawsuit in case a student might be drowned in the no lifeguarding swimming pool? the door to the gym never locked up during the night? or just conveniently opened for shooting this entry level romance? all the taiwanese, no matter it's a male or female, young or old, all speaking in a weird chinese mandarin with an unique tone ended every sentence with an '-ah', '-lah', '-mah', '-oh', '-dah', '-eh', 'yieh'. making the chinese mandarin a softer and more feminine way to speak, no matter it's a question or just a remark. while the common way of chinese mandarin speaking in mainland china is more rigid, more straight forward, more clear cut, more concise, never tagged a tail tone with an 'ah'.
anyway, this is a very simple deadbeat cliche through and through.
junior high school poppy-love romance couldn't be this boring.
a friendship turned sour for a boy, that's what we got here. if your age is at that level and the way of your thinking is at that stage, you might love this movie very much. yes, i am definitely over the age of 13. are you satisfied?

"If in the next year, or the next 3 years, you start liking boys, will you let me be the first to know?".......2006-09-19

This film is so good I feel compelled to write a review.

The plot is rather simple involving 2 girls and a boy: Girl A likes Boy, Boy likes Girl B and Girl B likes Girl A.

What is so captivating about this film is that it is so beautifully shot that any shot you take it could be on the publicity poster.

And there is a certain quiet quality to it. It has no melodrama but the honest protrayal of teenage angst and uncertainty will grip you in your chest right from the start of the film till the end. A heart-rending pain not allowing one to breathe, not intense enough to cry over but a pain so slow and insidious that it would stay within one for days before one could expunge it out.

And the dialogue. There must be only about a hundred lines of exchange but every line - and many of them repeated - shows the repression of emotions, the fear if they are spoken out loud so the protagonists write on the walls, write on notebooks and burn them, write in sands to be washed by the waves.

i've been watching Chinese films since I was five. I have never seen a more beautiful Chinese film before. Even Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou aren't this good.

superb!.......2005-11-05

This is one of the best taiwan film I've seen in years! It's very entertaining, and very well made too. It's the kind of rare film that able to balance the depth of the content with commercial values.

A superb film!

Teenage coming out, coming of age in Taiwan.......2005-05-14

For many of us, the teenage coming out, coming of age story has been done again and again, but Blue Gate Crossing is a sweet addition to these kinds of storylines, with the added interest of being set in Taiwan.

Meng Kerou (Lun-mei Guey) and Lin Yuezhen (Shu-hui Liang) are best friends and high school students in Taipei. Yuezhen has a crush on Zhang Shihao (Bo-lin Chen), a boy in their school, but it's Kerou who goes to talk to him on Yuezhen's behalf. Shihao thinks it's Kerou who likes him, so things become a bit of a mess when he begins to like her. At the same time, Kerou is realizing that it's Yuezhen that she's fallen in love with.

It's a very innocent story of young love. Shihao becomes a good friend to Kerou too. He's the kind of boy who's very sweet and likable and a big part of making this film work. Yuezhen, on the other hand, lives in a sort of fantasy world and chooses to ignore it when Kerou kisses her. Kerou's heart breaks, but she ends up happy and more sure of herself and her sexuality, regardless of Yuezhen's reaction.

Nominated for Best Asian Film at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

A terrific film few in the U.S. saw.......2004-02-24

While this charming coming-of-age movie barely surfaced in U.S. theaters, moviegoers will finally have the chance to catch up with it on video. Unlike many heavy-handed queer films of the last decade that deal with a young person's coming-out, this movie gets the awkwardness, the pain, the humor, and the affection just right. It made the Advocate's Top Ten Films of 2003 list, and rightfully so. Give it a shot!

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