KrimenTaon2019Tagal1h 46mIMDb6.3

Cities of Last Things

Name: Cities of Last Things
Genre: Krimen,Drama,Sci-Fi
Released: 2019-07-11
Rating: 6.3

KrimenDramaSci-Fi

This is a story about a common man who has extraordinary events in his mundane life. The film depicts the protagonist's turns of events in three eras, three seasons, three nights, in the same city, as told with reverse chronology.

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Cast

Wi Ding Ho

Director

Jack Kao

Zhang Dong Ling (Mature)

Hong-Chi Lee

Zhang Dong Ling (Young)

Louise Grinberg

Ara

Ning Ding

Big Sister Wang

Lu Huang

Yu Fang (Young)

Linda Jui-Chi Liu

Yu Fang (Mature)

Ching-Ting Hsia

Ah Long

Igor Kovic

Ara's Father

Yi Dai Kuo

Manager

Ming-Sen Lin

Zhang Jia Jun

Ming-Shuai Shih

Xiao He

Joey Yu

Little Six

Wi Ding Ho

Writer

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Marylene🦋Mar 12, 2025

The movie is divided into 3 parts detailing 3 different times in the character's life, beginning with old age, then middle age, and finally teen age. The problem is that rather than being one cohesive whole, each part feels too separate, like standalone mini-movies. His teenage part, especially, feels pointless and completely removed from the other two. The story would not lose anything if this part was removed. And being half an hour long, that's an unacceptable waste of the viewer's time. The filmography, acting, etc. Are all very good, but none of that can make up for a story told badly. The script is also rather sparse, with the main character speaking very very little throughout the whole movie, and way too many things being poorly explained as a result. It's difficult to understand what's going on or the character's motivations at times.

FnjieOct 18, 2022

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Christelle motidiOct 17, 2022

I was surprised by the emotions I felt seeing the troubles the main character goes through in the film. Somehow, the movie manages to make the audience "feel" what he goes through when he sees his wife cheating on him with his supervisor, when he is wrongly framed for a crime by his supervisor(possibly to avoid future retaliation), when he sees his own mother die and immediately feels regret for being cold to her, etc. Somehow, the movie manages to beautifully capture the mundane life of this man who goes through such trauma's in life. Even the mother's emotions and feelings were well portrayed although she appears only during the last 25-30 minutes of the film. A surprising find, and glad I watched it.

TesfaOct 17, 2022

A series of events in a man's life, over decades, leads to a fateful night. The film takes place in regressive chronology, where we see the final acts of the main character and then we regress to key points in his life, which give us the reasons that lead him to do what he does. We start in a distant future, in terms of technology (a kind of Blade Runner), which I did not particularly liked, given the mood that the film pretends to have, at least in my opinion, and it's only acceptable by a small detail that later on (that is, in the past) is explained to the audience. There's strange moments and scenes, and nobody can really tell why they happened, or happened that way, at least. The best part is the cinematography, the grain throughout the film is beautiful (it was shot in 35mm) and creates an attractive noir atmosphere.

Suhaib Lord MgarenOct 17, 2022

Think of Black Mirror Chinese version. Three short stories, each one depicting human flaws that's common among most of us. So well scripted and portrayed, don't miss this one if you have a chance to see it. Trust me, you'll come away moved.

Girassol 🌻Oct 17, 2022

French and foreign critics were eulogistic. I was then expecting a masterpiece. The actors certainly play perfectly but the scenario is deliberately but excessively PulpFiction-ed with a disturbing script. As a synthesis: disappointing and frustrating. 5/6 of 10.

adilassilOct 17, 2022

In a Chinese city of the future, where happiness is the creed and suicide a secular sin, a pensioner jumps to his death from a tall building. What follows are 3 episodes from his life, told in reverse order. There is the last day of his life, his time as a police officer, and his time as a wayward youth. Each earlier-in-life episode explains his actions later in life. This is interesting storytelling, slightly marred for me by not realizing that there were only 3 main time periods, and therefore trying unnecessarily to figure out if we had moved to an earlier time. From the director Q+A at the Toronto International Film Festival, the English title is inspired by the book Country of Last Things, while the Chinese title is Happiness City (Ironically, I believe).

Julia Ilumbe04Oct 17, 2022

The movie is a string of three short films very cleverly put together. In the first one we meet an obsessed and violent man, and the next two show us how he got to be the bad person that he is. Eras change, technology changes, seasons change, actors change, the style of cinematography changes, but some things are constant throughout the movie: acting is great, smoking is super hot, and the system is as corrupt as ever. It gets a bit melodramatic towards the end, but this is a movie with great atmosphere, and it keeps your brain busy well after the credits have rolled.

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Cities of Last Things

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