Your Name Engraved Herein
This week's review is regarding a Taiwanese movie called "Your name engraved in Herein." It is intended for those who really accept differences and diversity.
"Your name engraved in Herein," tells the story of two young boys Birdy and Jia-Han, that in 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, fall in love. It aired on 23 Dec 2020 on Netflix, and it has caused a positive impact worldwide and a huge success for the director Liu.
I have to begin by saying that even though this is not a movie for everyone, I loved it. This is not a movie that focuses on a plot, this film focuses on character development and how the external situations affect both of the protagonists.
The story unfolds at a Catholic school, where the two boys, that have totally opposite personalities, start to fall in love. But the world is to harsh for both of them because their romantic story is amid social repression, discrimination, family pressure, and religion.
The director has no rush to show us how their love is evolving and is not explicitly said in the movie, but with facial expressions, gestures of affections, and actions we can notice their not-yet-official relationship.
The two actors have incredible chemistry, that not all couples in movies have, which is something important to point out.
But now I will explain why is this not a movie for everyone.
This movie focuses mainly on character development, which may be boring for some people. It doesn't have a turning point. Is about how each one of the characters deals with their internal conflicts.
This is a slow movie, even for me that I like these kinds of movies. Finally, this is a REALISTIC movie, is not a kind of movie that the characters only think about themselves and think that their love will overcome everything, NO!
So I believe that if you like serious, realistic, not so happy ending and a heart touching story, I highly recommend this movie.
Manuela Orozco Echavarría, Step 10
