Secret

Reflection: Secret

The movie Secret is the 1st directed movie by Jay Chou in 2007. This movie awarded the 44th Golden Horse Award 2007 of Best Visual Effect, Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year and Best Original Film Song. The main characters who are starring in this movie are Jay Chou himself, Kwai Lun Mei, Anthony Wong, and Alice Tzeng.

Ye Xiang Lun, a school transferred music student, met a girl name Lu Xiao Yu by hearing the piano she played. He was attracted by her and her music and he tends to know this girl. The story continued with a simple love story which they started. Riding bicycle together, tickle to each other, hiding from the rain together, walking on beach together, having cheers on ice-cream, playing piano together, dancing together, kissing and etc. He also had a piano duel for a piano manuscript, for her. But, unfortunately, a mislead kiss of him with another girl, Qing Yi is seen by her. The mislead cause her disappear from him, from the school, and from the class also.
He met her back once after 5 months, but a hand lace of Qing Yi, on his hand, made another mislead. It caused her to disappear again. In the same time, he heard from friends, he actually dancing with nothing in the party and not her. He referred back his memory, actually every scene he with her seems like just he himself doing all the things. He was frightened and suddenly a scary scene, he saw the liquid was writing on table itself, asking whether he love her or not. He went to her house, her mother told him she already died. Her mother saw his face same as the drawing her daughter drawn 20years ago. And found that she misunderstood her daughter was crazy, which saying she was ever travel to future and met a man in there. He asked his father for information since his father was the teacher of her. His father said she ever told him about could travel to future, but thought that she was over thinking. She was laughed and isolated by her classmates.

Actually she was right; she could travel to future and pass by a secret way. Which was the time when the music of the Secret played by this piano, she could do that. After travel to future, everyday the 1st who she met would get a chance of seeing her. In order to let the man, Ye Xiang Lun, who she 1st met on 1st time and she liked, able to see her, she counted on 108 steps to the classroom everyday before opening her eyes. She enjoyed loving him, but till she saw the mislead kiss and hand lace, she was hurt. She thought, in future, he betrayed on her; in her time, no one believed her. And she was suffered on her disease also, she felt painful and sad. So, she died after wrote the liquid on table of whether he love her or not.

After Ye Xiang Lun heard from father about her, the day of the graduation day, also the piano room demolished date, he thought whether he could travel to past using the last chance before the piano demolished. He finished played the song and he really travelled to past, which the Lu Xiao Yu was still alive, and knew her once a time. But he cannot travel back to his time again, since the piano was demolished. A photo of graduation was showed that he was gone to the past then.

I like this movie very much. It is unique, creative, complex and yet a nice movie. Even repeat seeing it, it still very nice. I think it has combine romance love story, family love story, ghost story, sci-fi, and mystery story. A simple logic story turns to confuse with not logic one and lastly turn to complex but logic condition. Overall actually doing well, many scene and matter were an intention to do that. Two different characters, two different times, two different backgrounds play important role with continuity and timeline. It is actually let me think of the movie ‘Frequency’. The well cut between two different timing is done, and didn’t make confuse at last. Got one scene he flashback the scene on his memory, it is combined by few scene and with a well join. The scene of piano room changing time to time, it uses the computer effects to help; it creates a good visual experience. This happens to the piano duel scene too. The movie actually joining many cut on long shot, medium shot, close-up shot, very smooth and also plays well on the direction to shot, he apply a excellent skill to the shots. The movie is put on 25 background songs, and these songs is attached well in movie, no distract but increase the mood, it effort to brings audience into movie. Jay Chou’s piano’s melody able him to show his talent also.

Tankang Middle School: Jay Chou previous middle school, he uses it on movie because of memorable time and place for him.

Frederic Chopin: Jay Chou admires him, so he included it inside movie. The lesson on class which teach, the paintings of Chopin and his wife, the Chopin’s manuscript, and the songs he played in the piano duel of Chopin’s Waltz and Black Key Etude.

The intention scenes Jay Chou created in movie to explain and make real on the movie about travel to time:

1, Lu Xiao Yu count on her steps to classroom before open her eyes.
2, Qing Yi talks with Lu Xiao Yu during the piano duel.
3, Lu Xiao Yu brings Ye Xiang Lun go up the house roof to see sea view, didn’t get into house.
4, Lu Xiao Yu get into the cupboard, but didn’t catch by teacher.
5, Lu Xiao Yu says she haven eat that kind of ice cream before, cone ice cream.
6, Ye Xiang Lun ask Lu Xiao Yu’s name but Qing Yi answers.
7, Lu Xiao Yu always absents on class.
8, Lu Xiao Yu says she ‘go back’ also plays fast with the piano.
9, Lu Xiao Yu likes old song.
10, Lu Xiao Yu says their met is miracle.
11, Lu Xiao Yu says the music cannot be told, is a secret.