唬爛三小 Bluffing

Title: Bluffing
Director: HUANG Hsin Yao

Synopsis:

It's a story about the friendship and memories between director Huang Shin-yao and his high schoolmates. After finished military service, four guys started their new lives in different cities. On their holidays, guys spontaneously went back to a tea house named ''free house'', a hang out place since teenage, sit and bluffed whole day for killing time.

''From teenage to 30 something, our brotherhood is inexplicable, sometimes it’s just that we shared each others joys and sorrows in our youth age. There are dozen of petty things in the film, it seems meaningless for audiences, but it's those petty things that matters, they held us together, gave us a support and a way out. '' Huang said. A sense of humor of the voice-over and funny dialogues made this film popular within young audiences, however, the cruel reality presented within arose even more adults’ attention. Behind lively gatherings, some married, some lose their jobs, some even committed suicide...Their stories show a process of pursuing one's life goal. In this process, bluffing is a way to comfort your fellows, to ease loneness.

2002年的秋天，我的高中同學出國去了。我剪了一支片子，告訴他我們這幾年的生活，順便和他一起回味那過去的時光。你如果問我對這世界的看法，我會跟你說，世界和這人生一樣，一切都是唬爛三小。