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This film is a summary of Hou Hsiao-hsien's film career. The ways the male (Chang Chen) and female (Shu Qi) protagonists express their emotions and the historical backgrounds of the three stories can all be found in Hou Hsiao-hsien's films from different periods. "Love Dream" is pure, like an unattainable dream; "Freedom Dream" is touching, but it is a more distant dream approaching paradise; "Youth Dream" is cold, but it is reality. It is not particularly meaningful to rashly say which segment is Hou Hsiao-hsien's "best time (or best film time)," because all times are wasted and squandered. Only after squandering and wasting can one pick out a particular segment from memory, dust it off, andSigh that it was the best time.