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Eternal Summer

2006 · 96 min · Director: Leste Chen ★ IMDb 6.9 · 3,719 ratings

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As a child living in a seaside town in southern Taiwan, studious Jonathan (Bryant Chang) was asked by his concerned teacher to look after rebellious classmate Shane (Joseph Chang). 10 years later, what was once a good-natured obligation has blossomed into a warm friendship, with Jonathan still on the academic track and Shane finding his calling on the basketball court. When Taiwanese-born schoolgirl Carrie (Kate Yeung) transfers to their school from Hong Kong and convinces Jonathan to join her on a secret day-trip to Taipei, her botched effort to seduce him in a sleazy love-hotel, combined with her observations of his and Shane's friendship, soon leads her to believe that the object of her affections is a homosexual in love with his best friend. Despite her initial misgivings about the boorish Shane, Carrie starts to give in to the troublemaker's roguish charm when he convinces her to become his girlfriend if he is accepted into university. Later, as Shane pulls his act together and Jonathan begins to experience a sexual-identity crisis, the former does his best to keep his feelings for Carrie secret in order to protect the feelings of his lifelong friend. Despite Jonathan's, Shane's, and Carrie's best efforts to keep their personal feelings secret, the truth eventually emerges, forcing all three to view their relationships in an entirely new light.

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Eternal Summer (2006) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Melancholy 35%, Empathy 25%, Love 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Melancholy, Empathy, Love. Genres: Drama, Romance. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Melancholy, Empathy and Love. Its IMDb rating of 6.9/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 70/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Empathy
  • Sadness
  • Love

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Dominant emotion: Curiosity

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Love

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Empathy
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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then dips around 48 %, then peaks around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityEmpathySadnessLove
2.5 %≈ 2′Curiosity40 %28 %17 %23 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Curiosity41 %34 %21 %20 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Empathy44 %34 %21 %20 %
17.5 %≈ 17′Curiosity43 %25 %13 %26 %
22.5 %≈ 22′Love41 %24 %10 %30 %
27.5 %≈ 26′Curiosity46 %35 %20 %31 %
32.5 %≈ 31′Empathy51 %44 %31 %30 %
37.5 %≈ 36′Tension54 %41 %30 %28 %
42.5 %≈ 41′Tension49 %33 %20 %30 %
47.5 %≈ 46′Love40 %28 %16 %29 %
52.5 %≈ 50′Tension40 %30 %18 %24 %
57.5 %≈ 55′Love48 %36 %24 %26 %
62.5 %≈ 60′Tension56 %45 %39 %34 %
67.5 %≈ 65′Sadness55 %48 %43 %35 %
72.5 %≈ 70′Empathy55 %49 %44 %29 %
77.5 %≈ 74′Sadness65 %56 %55 %29 %
82.5 %≈ 79′Sadness68 %60 %56 %39 %
87.5 %≈ 84′Empathy69 %64 %59 %50 %
92.5 %≈ 89′Sadness76 %71 %68 %59 %
97.5 %≈ 94′Empathy80 %77 %68 %63 %
Riches to rags

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

HC
Hsiao-chuan Chang

RC
Ray Chang

JC
Joseph Chang Hsiao-Chuan

Shane / Yu Shouheng

KY
Kate Yeung

KY
Kate Yeung Kei

Carrie Tu

Details

Directed by
Leste Chen
Written by
Leste Chen, Cheng-Ping Hsu, Chi-yao Wang
Type
Movies
Released
2006
Runtime
96 min
Country
Taiwan
Genres
Drama, Romance
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.9 · 3,719 ratings
Feels mostly
Melancholy
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