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renan tróia’s review published on Letterboxd:
The fairest thing in the world is the sun. Regardless of latitude, every place on Earth receives equal spans of day and night.
A sun has a quite emotional charge, with breathtaking scenes and dialogues. Chung Mong-Hong delivers a flawless character construction to A-Ho, his father and his brother, making the movie a piece about family, mourning and, mainly, regret. A-Ho's brother death is a reminder about depression and suicide, and it gets even more deep with the Sun metaphor and the scenes before and after the act: him tidying up the bedroom and the greetings at the funeral.
There're some points that didn't work though. The movie seems to be divided into two parts that, although aren't enough by themselves, don't compliment each other in a totally free-off misunderstandings way. The movie takes too long to deliver the story, and kind off loose the plot sometimes. Finally, Chung tried to work with some comical relief - like the marriage scene - that seems disconnected and, for me, don't work well.