Better Days - First Great Movie I watched in 2025
Greetings everyone! I've disappeared for a hot minute, but I'm finally back. Probably I'm currently speaking into the void because no one checks this blog, yet it's still better than stressing over the whole shit of homework I have to do. I've been in school, so unfortunately I haven't gotten the time and energy to watch movies. Luckily enough, today I finished the first film in a while and that is "Better Days". Some people recognize this movie as it was nominated for the Oscars in 2019, but in my the part of the Internet I've mostly missed the buzz around it. Anyway, for the context, it a Chinese film directed by Derek Tsang featuring Dongyu Zhou, Jackson Lee, Fang Li and Ye Zhou in the main roles. Its story follows a student named Chen Nian who, after the sudden suicide of one of her classmates, starts getting severely bullied. She meets a young man named Xiao Bei who promises to protect her from the bullies, so that she could continue focusin...
