The Power of Time
Time is the most powerful force in the world. It hones a skill into mastery, freezes arrogance in its tracks, melts even the brightest brilliance, and heals the deepest wounds. Time is what makes us believe — and yet, its cruelty can leave us defenseless. As time watches over generations, we are left in awe, yearning to both embrace it and lean on it. This curated selection of films begins with the power of time — bidding farewell to what’s lost in the past, while searching for what lies ahead. Sometimes, we are trapped within fleeting seconds; other times, we gaze across a thousand-year flood of history, unsure where we’re headed. This is, above all, a list that moved my heart. I hope these stories through time stir something in you too — or even spark a question: What might a lifetime truly taste like?
Author張硯拓影評人、《釀電影》主編，曾任金馬影展奈派克獎、香港電影節費比西獎、女性影展、高雄電影節評審，著有電影散文集《剛剛好的時光》
5 films
Tokyo-Ga (Digitally Remastered) (Only available in Taiwan)
Pelican: 74 Years of Japanese Tradition
Almost Human
Amy
Written on the sky
Popular
Those irreversible slices of life
Recently, in a novel I've come to love, I found myself grasping the weight of life's slices. In the story, there is a wicked sorcerer who freezes people in the instant just before tragedy strikes—suspending everything, sealing it into a crystal ball, and building an entire museum from these frozen moments. And isn't film, in its own way, just as cruel? As viewers, we are little more than instruments for collecting tissue slices—slipping into a character's world for a single fleeting moment, wandering through it in passing, only to return, in the blink of an eye, to the reality that is our own.