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* DownerBeginning: The film begins with a wedding being ruined by the disastrous appearance of a hysterical ex.

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* DownerBeginning: The film begins with a wedding being ruined interupted by the disastrous appearance of a hysterical ex.
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''Yi Yi'' (一一) is a movie by Taiwanese director Edward Yang, which received the Best Direction award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. It depicts a few weeks in the life of an ordinary Taiwanese family, as the various members must each learn to cope with the challenges of life in their own way. As the grandmother falls in a coma following an accident, the father meets his long-lost first love, the mother goes on a spiritual retreat in a Buddhist monastery, the daughter enters a love triangle, and the son asks grown-ups difficult questions.

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''Yi Yi'' (一一) is a movie by Taiwanese director Edward Yang, Creator/EdwardYang, which received the Best Direction award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. It depicts a few weeks in the life of an ordinary Taiwanese family, as the various members must each learn to cope with the challenges of life in their own way. As the grandmother falls in a coma following an accident, the father meets his long-lost first love, the mother goes on a spiritual retreat in a Buddhist monastery, the daughter enters a love triangle, and the son asks grown-ups difficult questions.
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* LastMinuteBabyNaming: UpToEleven with A-Di and his wife, who don't have a name chosen when their baby is born and continue to hold off for a while after the baby is born because his horoscope is bad.

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* LastMinuteBabyNaming: UpToEleven with A-Di and his wife, who wife don't have a name chosen when their baby is born and continue to hold off for a while after the baby is born because his horoscope is bad.

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* PantyShot: Yang-yang falls in love with a classmate after seeing her catch her skirt on a door handle and expose her panties.
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* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: Averted. The grandmother's funeral takes place in fine, sunny weather.

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* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: Averted. ItsAlwaysSunnyAtFunerals: The grandmother's funeral takes place in fine, sunny weather.
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* YourCheatingHeart: N.J. embarks on an emotional affair with Sherry, but nothing is consummated and she leaves quietly without leaving him a message.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: A [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example in Yang-yang. While he's not very book-smart, he seems to be much more perceptive and somewhat more mature than many of the adults around him. His love for taking pictures of people's backs highlights this (it's meant to show them what they never see).
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* IronicNickname: Fatty is not particularly overweight.

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* AuthorAvatar: Yang-Yang, much like Edward Yang, is a quiet creative type obsessed with the unseen and spiritual.

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* AuthorAvatar: Yang-Yang, much like Edward Yang, is a quiet creative type obsessed with the unseen and spiritual. Many have noted that the fact that they share names is probably not a coincidence.



* ItsAllMyFault: Ting-Ting blames herself for not being there during her grandmother's accident, as she was taking out the trash.



* MultigenerationalHousehold: N.J.'s household includes his mother-in-law as well as his own children.

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* MultigenerationalHousehold: N.J.'s household includes his mother-in-law mother as well as his own children.


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* OldFlameFizzle: [[spoiler:N.J. and Sherry don't end up together and N.J. realizes that he wouldn't have done anything differently even if he could redo his life.]]

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* AuthorAvatar: Yang-Yang, much like Edward Yang, is a quiet creative type obsessed with the unseen and spiritual.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:N.J. and Sherry don't end up together and N.J. is still having business troubles, but he can at least be honest with himself that he and Sherry would have never had a future and he would have still married his wife. Ting-Ting's love life is in shambles (and Lili has to deal with her ex murdering her lover) but she's able to be honest with her feelings and say goodbye to her grandmother, as can Yang-Yang in a way after he cultivates his new passion for photography.]]
* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: A possible interpretation of Fatty ranting at Ting-Ting and driving her away [[spoiler:before he murders Lili's English teacher.]]



* HenpeckedHusband: A-Di's new wife is very demanding and pushy around her husband [[spoiler:until his suicide attempt changes her attitude.]]



* LoveDodecahedron: What Lili ends up in, with disastrous results.
* MultigenerationalHousehold

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* KavorkaMan: A-Di is an incompetent, overweight slob, but nevertheless manages to date several attractive women, including his starlet wife.
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: UpToEleven with A-Di and his wife, who don't have a name chosen when their baby is born and continue to hold off for a while after the baby is born because his horoscope is bad.
* LoveDodecahedron: What Lili's promiscuous mother is having an affair with Lili's English teacher. Lili breaks up with Fatty and starts having her own affair with the English teacher, while Ting-Ting attempts a relationship of her own with Fatty. None of it ends up in, with disastrous results.
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* MultigenerationalHouseholdMultigenerationalHousehold: N.J.'s household includes his mother-in-law as well as his own children.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Fatty murders the English teacher that Lili has been seeing, in a jealous rage.]]



* SuddenVideogameMoment: When Lili's off-and-on boyfriend murders her lover, the scene is played as a videogame fight.

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* SuddenVideogameMoment: When [[spoiler:When Lili's off-and-on boyfriend murders her lover, lover,]] the scene is played as a videogame fight.




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* YourCheatingHeart: N.J. embarks on an emotional affair with Sherry, but nothing is consummated and she leaves quietly without leaving him a message.

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* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: A-Di is on thin ice with his wife to the point where she briefly kicks him out of the house, right before the disastrous baby party where his ex-girlfriend shows up and his fed-up wife causes a scene. [[spoiler:She forgives him after his suicide attempt, though.]]
* DownerBeginning: The film begins with a wedding being ruined by the disastrous appearance of a hysterical ex.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:A-Di attempts suicide, but like most things in his life, he fails at that, too.]]



* FatBastard: A-Di has some shades of this, being overweight, stupid, and vain.



* SliceOfLife

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* SliceOfLifeSliceOfLife: A very intimate portrait of how love and work affects family life.




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* YouAreWhatYouHate: Lili dislikes and resents her mother for being promiscuous, but she herself ends up being no different.
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''Yi Yi'' (一一) is a movie by Taiwanese director Edward Yang, which received the Best Direction award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. It depicts a few weeks in the life of an ordinary Taiwanese family, as the various members must each learn to cope with the challenges of life in their own way. As the grandmother falls in a coma following an accident, the father meets his long-lost first love, the mother goes on a spiritual retreat in a Buddhist monastery, the daughter enters a love triangle, and the son asks grown-ups difficult questions.

While nothing very eventful takes place, the characters feel like one's own relatives by the end of the movie.

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!!Contains examples of:

* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: N.J.'s first language is Chinese, Ota's is Japanese. Neither speaks the other's language, so they tentatively communicate in broken English.
* FirstGirlWins: Averted. N.J. broke up with his first love in university [[spoiler:and, as it turns out, giving their relationship another chance doesn't work out.]]
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: N.J. likes to tune out by putting on earphones and listening to music.
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: Averted. The grandmother's funeral takes place in fine, sunny weather.
* LoveDodecahedron: What Lili ends up in, with disastrous results.
* MultigenerationalHousehold
* PantyShot: Yang-yang falls in love with a classmate after seeing her catch her skirt on a door handle and expose her panties.
* SadistTeacher: Yang-yang's teacher repeatedly humiliates him in front of the class.
* SliceOfLife
* StalkerWithACrush: Yang-yang turns into a preteen version of this after falling in love with a classmate.
* SuddenVideogameMoment: When Lili's off-and-on boyfriend murders her lover, the scene is played as a videogame fight.
* {{Tsundere}}: Lili.
* WeddingSmashers: The bridegroom's former girlfriend barges in and makes a scene.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: N.J. and his first love.
* {{Workaholic}}: Averted with N.J. who, despite being an obvious candidate for this trope (Asian, mid-level manager in a software company), in fact feels increasingly disconnected from his job.

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