Ten minutes older is known as one film but actually these are two compilation movies containing 15 ten-minute films about the most universal of all subjects--time. 15 internationally respected filmmakers offer different perspectives on time and fate--some witty, some somber. Using the technology of movies in innovative, provocative ways, Ten minutes older takes in all human experience: birth, death, love, sex, dramatic moment, history and ancient myth. Also a great variety of locations all over the world is also shown in thsi film.
The piece directed by the Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige is 100 flowers hidden deep which is the name of a traditional Chinese bystreet known as Gutong. But people can't see them in China anymore as they were dismantled to offer space for more economic constructions like skyscrapers etc. The story starts which an old man hires movers and leads them to a dilapitated old section of Beijing which is the remain of 100 flowers hidden deep. When they arrive there, they find there's no home to be removed but they humour him in the effort of receive payment. Later on, a lost piece about the past is found buried under ground and belongs to this old man making him hysterical first and then happy again! Then the movers begin to realize the fact that this old man used to live in this Gutong for all his life. After he was forced to move out his spirit stayed here. And he is so addicted to the old memory that he didn't want to accept the fact.
I felt shocked after I watched this film. It makes me think that time is like a river. If our culture get lost in it, we get lost as well-as there's no evidence to prove that we did exist. It forced me to look back at what we had done and what we should do!
All in all, this film is very high-standard and we can always find somethings in it to make us think! That's best part, is it not?
