Went to watch this movie recently on some websites. Was quite touched by the movie's plot. In case you never watched it before, here's a short summary of the movie:
Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen's sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
As a child living in a seaside town in southern Taiwan, studious Jonathan (Bryant Chang) was asked by his concerned teacher to look after rebellious classmate Shane (Joseph Chang). Ten years later, what was once a good-natured obligation has since blossomed into a warm friendship, with Jonathan still on the academic track and Shane now finding his calling on the basketball court.
Taiwan-born schoolgirl Carrie (Kate Yeung) arrives from Hong Kong to join her mother after a disagreement with her father and transfers to their school. She befriends Jonathan and convinces him to join her on a secret day-trip to Taipei and in the evening she seduces him in a sleazy hotel but Jonathan backs down clearly distraught. Eventually, her observations of his and Shane's friendship leads her to believe that he is gay and in love with his best friend.
Carrie then meets Shane through Jonathan after a school day where Shane develops an interest in Carrie. Despite her initial misgivings about the boorish Shane, she eventually gives in to the troublemaker's roguish charms. She accepts his offer to become his girlfriend on the condition that he manages to enter university.
Later, Shane pulls his act together and tests into University, but Jonathan, distracted by his burgeoning sexual identity crisis, does not. Shane does his best to keep his feelings for Carrie secret in order to protect the feelings of his lifelong friend. Despite all their best efforts to keep their personal feelings secret, the truth eventually emerges, forcing all three to view their relationships in an entirely new light.
(Quoted from: Wikipedia.com)
Well in my personal opinion, the movie can be summarised into the following sentence: "You will not mind your friend for who they are and are willing to accept them for who they are". It is extremely disgusting to observe those superficial "friends" who are always behind your back stabbing you while in front of you, will put up a fake front by being very friendly with you. Thus in my life, I always have these set of rules as a guide on friendship. I can be very nice and close to you and even up to a stage of self declared "best friend forever". But if I were to find out that you were those that belongs to the group that I will classify it as being superficial (even it is not to me but someone else) I will not be bothered with you and please do not bother me anymore. By staying away from me, I will be very grateful to you.
So with the previous discussion, it has bring us to one point called honesty. I think what Johnathan did was absolutely commendable. If that was to happen to me, I think honesty is really the best policy. You might think why is this so? Like what the movie has shown, if there is a secret kept in between both of them, no matter how long the friendship last, it will still go down the drain. So no matter how established the bonds were, a secret in it will set it on fire and eventually burn it down to ashes.
Using these 2 quotes, I will end my post here for you guys to ponder about it! "True friends stab you in the front" and "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood". =D
