TAIPEI STORY dives again into Edward Yang’s musings on the modern Taiwanese experience, juxtaposing the past with the future against a concrete-and-glass background of 1980s economic disparities. Childhood sweethearts Chin and Lung meet again later in life, when neither of them is quite ready to make anything happen. Debts, missed opportunities, and baseball fill the space between them – and as their relationship enters its quiet death throes, they find themselves helpless to prevent the entropy that drives them apart. - Get tickets to EDWARD YANG, GIANT OF TAIWANESE CINEMA (March 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/edward-yang-giant-of-taiwanese-cinema/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music is a song I think might get me in trouble (even though it appears in the song), so just take a listen for yourself. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 218: TAIPEI STORY (1985) 2:38 - The episode actually starts 4:29 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, LLC) 7:02 - Baseball 17:12 - Gwan, exposition & pity instead of love 20:50 - Putting characters in meaningful context 27:58 - A dichotomy between future and past 32:08 - Who Chin is to Lung and the other men in her life 37:36 - Embodying the future/past dichotomy through characters 49:49 - The precarity of modern living 1:00:41 - The Aaron Grossman Edward Yang Filmed Apartment Quality Index (AGEYFAQI) 1:02:59 - The Junk Drawer 1:08:29 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:14:04 - Cody’s Noteys: Frank White Story (baseball trivia)
