Watched Yi Yi (2000) by Edward Yang for the first time last week and I'm still thinking about it.

The film follows three generations of a Taiwanese family over roughly two hours and fifty minutes. Nothing about that description prepares you for what it actually is, which is the most complete portrait of what it feels like to be alive that I have encountered in any medium.

Yang uses the child character Yang-Yang in a way that is either the simplest or the most sophisticated thing in the film, I can't decide which. Yang-Yang takes photographs of the backs of people's heads because he wants to show them something they can't see for themselves. The film is doing exactly the same thing.

Edward Yang died in 2007. He made six feature films. The fact that Yi Yi isn't in every top ten list is a correctable failure of film culture.