非一般臺灣青春片，因爲不是講同性愛，講的是一身義氣，或是孬的，男孩子都長成男人了。只有，深夜游水池，泛起來的閃光，還記得那些輕狂的嬉笑。
不看電影，就去和導演講戯，不是大不敬，是大後悔。然而，聼老闆言，去看戯，果然是沒有錯的。此乃，看過九降風后之大醒悟。Point在於，有機會，要去看。
本來以爲，又是一部，臺灣青春片，新導演，曾志偉監製，我以爲林書宇是台版黃精甫。訪問止，我還是這樣的認爲。直到我看過電影，因爲人家堅持說是不同 藍色大門 或是 盛夏光年 的。
新導演，半自傳，講自己的高中時代，少年情懷，兄弟情，初戀云云。他說：“楊和侯都拍他們的青春，我有機會儅導演，也要如此，不過講我的時代。”
故事講 九個高中生，七男二女，交通意外，合法前的啤酒和煙，鎖起來的天台，臺灣職棒簽賭案。
用了9個新演員，Literally的新，是沒有拍過戯的孩子，他說，自己也變年輕了呢。然後，很高興，自己可以成爲一些改變的起因，在他們彼此的生命裏面。
儅了很多年副導演以後，他說：“我想做足了準備以後才開自己的戯，長片也很熟悉了，你看，也不會覺得是好像第一次拍戲的吧，我希望。”
當然也不是完美的，只是讓我有一點新鮮的感動關於很久以前的事情，多少推翻了我的STEREOTYPE。
他喜歡的 岩井俊二 ， 有機會在東京影展遇到，因爲大家都要趕下場，原本以爲錯過了，卻又搭上同一部的Lift，於是像小Fans樣的要簽名合照。“那個是緣阿。”
他說，那個時候看完 沽嶺街少年殺人事件 以後覺得怎麽會有這樣的電影啊，怎麽一個電影會這樣子拍啊，這樣子不想讓他結束。
不停地播 張雨生 的 我期待，我開始期待，他的下一部，于此同時。
我老是耿耿於懷的，中學美工科上，老師播的 疑似 臺灣新浪潮 的戯，是不是叫作， 我們都是這樣長大的。
我也老是耿耿於懷，我中學美工科的老師，舊舊的毛衣，和眯起眼看畵的樣子。
scmp extract: Sunday December 14 : Tom Lin
Vivian Chen
Tom Lin Shu-yu's feature-length directorial debut Winds of September is the first part of a trilogy produced by veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Eric Tsang Chi-wai. Filmed in the 32-year-old Taiwanese writer-director's hometown of Hsinchu, it portrays nine high school students' bitter-sweet adolescent lives.
What are the 'winds of September'?
My hometown Hsinchu is also called 'the wind city'. Strong winds from the China Sea blow across the city every September. For me, Hsinchu and the winds are inseparable and are connected to my teenage years. I always knew I was going to make a film about Hsinchu. I decided on the title even before I started writing the script in 2004. Youth is like the invisible and uncontrollable winds in Hsinchu, the soft and gentle breeze can become strong and harsh.
Is the story based on your own experiences at high school?
Edward Yang De-chang and Hou Hsiao-hsien, directors from the Taiwan New Wave, are great sources of inspiration - in terms of their spirit and ideology, rather than technique and visual styles. Both made films about their teenage lives. When I got the chance to make a film of my own, I wanted to tell a similar story - an updated version for my generation.
How is Winds of September different from other Taiwanese youth-oriented films?
Many of the others focus on romance, especially homosexual love as seen in Blue Gate Crossing and Eternal Summer. I think Winds of September is more ambitious in the way it depicts the teenagers' friendships against the background of an evolving society - Taiwan in the 1990s. The film is all about how the young build their self-esteem and lose their innocence.
When did you realise you wanted to be a filmmaker?
Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day was so influential on me, it was the reason I first got interested in making films. After watching it, when I was about 14 years old, I wanted to make a film just like that. The film was three hours long, and, for the first time, I didn't want it to stop. I am the same age as Chang Chen who starred in the film, and that's maybe another reason why I felt so connected to the film. I couldn't stop thinking of the plot and the characters even days after I had watched it.
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