The plot is deceptively simple: Zhang meets Jing. They sleep together. She leaves. He meets a girl who looks exactly like her. Is it the same person? Is he remembering a past life? Or is he simply a man who has seen too many movies?
The first segment, titled A Time for Love , is set in 1966. We are in a billiard hall in Kaohsiung. Chang Chen plays Chen, a conscript on leave. Shu Qi plays May, a young woman who works at the pool hall.
This is the "time for youth," but youth, Hou argues, is not freedom. Youth is the age of addiction—to phones, to drugs (Jing is a pill-popper), to the fantasy of romance. The lovers in this segment are the most physically intimate (they actually have sex on screen), yet they are the loneliest. three times hou hsiao hsien
Youthful innocence and the slow burn of attraction through letters and fleeting meetings. 2. A Time for Freedom (1911)
This serves as a spiritual companion to Hou’s 1998 masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai , utilizing restricted spaces to mirror the restricted lives of its characters. 3. "A Time for Youth" (2005) The plot is deceptively simple: Zhang meets Jing
In this first "time," Hou shows us that love in the 1960s was a whispered secret—visible only in sideways glances and the lonely sound of a train passing at night.
At its core, Three Times explores how the medium of human communication alters the nature of love itself. He meets a girl who looks exactly like her
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