NOOB FILM REVIEW- MEASURE IN LOVE directed by Siu-Ping Kung

SYNOPSIS (IMDB)
Greg Han Hsu and Angela Yuen compose a fantasy love story that transcends time zones and is intertwined with fate.

REVIEW - TIME TRAVEL/MANIPULATION GENRE
A major earthquake has caused a temporal anomaly and divided the world into two zones. One zone (Aurora) runs in normal time, another one (Evergreen) runs one year in one day. Means 10 days in Aurora is 10 years in Evergreen.

A young boy, Potato from Evergreen fell in love with a doctor, Ann-Jean (Angela Yuen) from Aurora. And the story goes on as the boy ages (to Greg Han Hsu), in a reverse style of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Similar to the recent remake of Jay Chou's 2007 classic, entitled Secret: Untold Melody. It is (whether Jay Chou realised it or not) inspired by the classic 1980 Somewhere In Time and also The Sixth Sense in 1999.

The genre is not about the technological advancement of going back and forth through time. It is a plot device for the character to overcome regret, make amends for his mistakes, and live in the present. Which is also what the ending of 2022's Everything Everywhere All at Once means. Michelle Yeoh's character returns to the same opening scene through time travel. Instead of trying to solve the problem that hasn't occurred yet, she looked around and was content with the present time.

Apart from being a branch of Buddhist ideas, it is also in Hinduism where Advaita Vedanta teaches that time is an illusion (Maya) and only the present is real. Also in Islam, the Koran says, "By time, indeed, mankind is in loss," because we worry too much about the past and the future, and we are not living in the present. And also to be Kafkaesquely committed our whole life towards modern commercialism. While the real notion of it (something that quantum scientists have recently discovered) is that time does not exist at all (Maya), and man is indeed at a loss. A great reminder of that with the building of a great clock tower beside the Kaaba in Mecca.

Beautifully shot with a great song by JJ Lin. Also casting Jack Tan from Abang Adik who plays Potato's brother. Showing in cinemas near you on the 2nd of October 2025

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