Some people want to find the sun warm, some people want to find the shadow to hide... In fact, as long as there is sunshine, there must be a shadow.
95% - Critics
89% - Audience
7.6Plot summary
A Sun follows a troubled family of four. A-Ho, the younger son, has always been a problematic child, and his father, A-Wen has invested all his hopes and expectations in his introverted eldest son, A-Hao. While A-Hao is trying to get into medical school, A-Ho faces juvenile detention for a crime committed with his best friend - although not entirely of his own will. A-Wen abandons A-Ho, refusing to help and even requesting the judge to sentence his son as harshly as possible. Not long after A-Ho is sent to prison, to make matters worse, his girlfriend shows up on his mother Qin's doorstep. The teenage girl is pregnant and determined to have A-Ho's child, even though he is locked up and has no idea she is expecting.
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As dry as a bottle of gin but not as much fun until Radish returns to spice things up. With a hefty run time this family drama from Taiwan hides behind the clouds too long before shining but does produce a ray or two before sunset.
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Cinema Omnivore - A Sun (2019) 7.9/10
"After Ho reenters the society at large, becomes a father and gets hitched, aspiring to a normal life, his insalubrious past catches up with the prodigal son once Radish is released from behind bars and an egress materializes only in the most mystifying way as Chung tactically blows the lid off in the coda, where Lin Sheng-Xiang's folksy score can embrace us so that we can brave the savage reveal. But the searing question is, this kind of belated redemption is pyrrhic (though Chung leaves the consequence in omission),Wen is an inadequate father, he has no real connections to both Hao and Ho despite his dichotomic attitudes, so as Qin, a doting mother to compensate her husband's asperity. A SUN is most trenchant in flagging up that wanting of parenting skill and shows us its harrowing damages, shored up by a cracking cast. My preferences are Liu's importunate roguery, Wu's headstrong sulkiness and Hsu' fresh-faced good nature that only in hindsight betrays a streak of marrow-deep taedium vitea (prefigured by an animated vignette)."
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