[...] these yearnings exist within a larger yearning. Their unquenched desire echoes Tsai's own desire for the popular cinema of his youth - and not just the movies, but everything that goes along with them: the big neighborhood cinemas, the communal culture of family moviegoing, the family itself, and the absolute surrender to the screen that is perhaps only possible for the very young, that perhaps can never be experienced again, not quite the same way.