Episode 219: YI YI (2000) with Aaron Grossman

In YI YI, the sudden illness of the matriarch in a three-generation household sends the lives of its inhabitants spiraling. In the emotional chaos, NJ, his wife Min Min, his daughter Ting Ting, and his son Yang Yang find themselves reckoning with the end of a generation and at the crossroads of many versions of themselves. In our discussion of director Edward Yang’s final film, we discuss the big ideas he hints at in everyday scenes: generational baggage and a struggle to move forward; the struggle to maintain identity amid changing circumstances; and the inability to control the world’s perceptions of you while you figure out who you want to be. - 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 [email protected] 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 another that might get me in trouble so idk, Google it or something. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 219: YI YI (2000) 5:01 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:48 - Da best Yang yet? 22:21 - The unifying ideas of YI YI 28:53 - Distance & alienation 34:42 - Tying setting and scene to theme 40:21 - Yang Yang & a changing world 46:48 - Grandma & generational tension 1:00:35 - Little moments where theme is expressed in form 1:09:50 - Readings of the ending 1:15:22 - The Junk Drawer 1:28:16 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:36:53 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Feud – The Most Popular Movies on Letterboxd from the 2000s