Thursday, November 26, 2015

473. Our Times


Title: 我的少女時代  Wo De Shao Nv Shi Dai
English Title: The Time of My Teenage Years / Our Times
Genre: Romance
Year: 2015

Summary: The film opens in the present day, where Lin Zhen Xin, also known as Truly Lin ,is an ordinary office worker who gets ridiculed by her subordinates. Dejected, she listens to a cassette recording of an old Andy Lau song. This brings her back to her high school days, where she was an ordinary high school girl. She has a crush on Ou Yang Fei Fan, the school's most popular male student.
One day, Truly Lin receives a chain letter, warning her of impending doom if she does not pass the message on. Naively, she passes it on to Xu Tai Yu, the school's notorious gangster boss, her math teacher and Tao Min-min, the school's most popular girl. While Tai-yu was reading the letter, he got injured in an car accident. After weeding out the letter's sender, the angry Tai Yu made Truly Lin his 'friend' and forced her to run errands for him in exchange for leaving Fei-fan alone, thus making her his errand-girl.
By chance, Truly Lin accidentally overhears a conversation between Min-min and Fei-fan and discovers that they are in a secret relationship. Dejected, she creates an alliance with Tai-yu, who likes Tao Min-min, to break the couple up. Throughout the course of events, Truly Lin and Tai-yu began to understand each other better, and their friendship evolves as they began to learn a thing or two about true love. Eventually, they develop feelings for each other.
Tai-yu later discovers of his brain clot, caused by the car accident in which he was reading Truly Lin's letter. His parents decide to send him overseas, leaving Truly Lin with no way to contact him in an era without social media.
18 years later, Truly Lin leaves her unhappy job and relationship upon having rediscovered herself. She is still unable to book a ticket to an Andy Lau concert that is set to take place in Taipei, where our two main characters, Truly Lin and Tai-yu, will be reunited.

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