Movie Review: What A SECRET

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Just drop all the presumptions you people have for Jay Chou and his newest (ok, the ONLY one) movie, seriously! I just caught Secret with the few peeps at JEC but I was rather shocked by the amount of people who were there to watch! Be it your biased mentality of him and hence his movie, we all ought to give people a CHANCE!

Jay Chou used a technique in his movie at certain times, just like what some dance choreographers, which makes the movie something we cannot just write it off. Even with only very ordinary backdrop, its the elements of humour sporadically inserted, Jay Chou's awkward boyishness given his age, the constant sub-conscious search for the 'secret' and the most ultimate of all, the moments of heartwarming scenes.

Really! In a 102 minutes movie, the director needs to get the acknowledgement of the viewers and the use of heartwarming scenes is just THE WAY TO GO! Notable parts on this is the playing of piano with 4 hands (the catepillar hands!) and Jay Chou risking himself to play the 'Secret'.

Of course, Jay Chou didn't really waste his chance to show his capability with the black and white keys. But kudos man, he was really ept at piano. It will make you want to learn it too!

I think the only thing that ordinary viewers like me can fault on is the rough transition in the storyline. I felt that it might be better and more comprehensible if everything, including Lu Xiao Yu, was just an illusion of Jay Chou, since he is a prodigy in piano and a prodigy often sees things differently from us humans right!?!

Something worth thinking about by me is that why Jay Chou's family consist of only guys and why Lu Xiao yu's family consist of only ladies. And what happens to Jay Chou's dad after that.

Like in real life, its always the misunderstandings that caused alot of things to happen too. All in all, the storyline is like the storyline of 法医X档案. Not to say that it is ordinary and cliche, I think it is just enough. It cannot be classified as Sci-fi too, unless you consider a piano something like a teleport. I think what Jay Chou is really trying to convey is the way one can risk himself for love.

Now, that sounds cliche. Shit.











Ratings: 3.5/5
For it being a directorial debut and the heartwarming scenes that Harry Potty didn't deliver.

I know the music is muffled. But thats really the best I can find.