High School

An enthralling story about the friendship between 7 guys that goes awry as each of them discovers themselves with respect to their relationship which ends up taking unexpected turns reminding of the chaos theory.

Jiu jiang feng (Winds of September) delves into a common subject for most of us, the seemly endless times of high school (here also against the backdrop of chinese communism, however not as harsh as most imagine) when we'd get into trouble, got reprimanded, laughed it off and do it all over again. Two of the boys are sophomores, two juniors and three seniors, the latter not affording many more screw ups, or they risk expulsion. Yen is with Yun, however he is handsome and likes to flirth with other girls. Tang tutores Yun and secretly loves her, whilst covering the mishaps of Yen. And from here you can imagine any possible scenario; without spoiling, I shall nevertheless say that when one of the blocks of this friendship falls, it all comes down eventually, like a domino. The boys don't meet anymore, get agressive with one another, even lie to evade a police record. The unity goes away.

Remembering the high school years, let's value those gatherings, the schemes we always connived, the way friendships covered for our faults and the satisfaction you got that, even if things went bad, at least we were all in it together. And let's laugh.

I rate the movie 9/10