Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)

 " Music made me believe life is beautiful. "

Does anyone portray intimacy of life as beautifully as Edward Yang does? It feels as if he depicts all those tiny moments of happiness and sadness of a person's life. This is the type of movie that truly encapsulates human behaviour and experience.

Yi Yi starts with a melancholic wedding scene beaming with a melodious score. The movie then focuses on three generations of a Taipei based family and covers almost every universal experiences of human life: Birth, youth, marriage, middle age and death.

It revolves around the three main characters-NJ, his adolescent daughter and his eight-year-old son.Their daily to daily is meticulously shown. The father is in a midlife crisis, regretting lost love and opportunities, while the daughter is going through unrequited love and pains of puberty, whereas the son is having existential questions.

There are some genuinely funny scenes in the movie. The time when someone informed the teacher that Yang Yang has bought a condom to the class, only to find out that it's a balloon instead. Also when Yang Yang clicks some random images and the teacher teases him by calling it Avant-garde filmmaking.