A student's lighthearted Facebook event encouraging people to cry in a Taipei park on New Year's Eve has become a viral cultural phenomenon.
Harry Li never thought that an online event he created to celebrate New Year’s Eve just for laughs would become the talk of the town. Instead of typical celebrations that include fireworks, going to concerts or partying, some in Taiwan are joining the 22-year-old university student to mark the arrival of 2025 in an unusual way — by crying.
It all started in 2023 as a light-hearted joke on Facebook, with Li calling on people to head to downtown Taipei’s Da’an Forest Park – the city’s equivalent of New York’s Central Park — on New Year’s Eve to weep for half an hour, a nod to a scene from the popular Taiwanese film Vive L’Amour. Directed by Taiwan-based Malaysian filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang, the movie won the top prize at the Venice International Film Festival in 1994. It portrays three young city dwellers going through the tedium, loneliness and disillusionment that many considered characteristic of urban life in Taipei in the 1990s, a period of rapid modernization and change. In the scene that inspired Li to create the event, the female protagonist sits down on a bench at an outdoor theater in Da’an Forest Park and bursts into tears, crying for seven minutes straight, before lighting a cigarette and staring into the void. But what started as a joke soon gained traction, with nearly 16,000 users expressing interest in attending Li’s New Year’s Eve event. Hundreds showed up at the park to cry, laugh, drink, sing, dance, chat and blow off steam, transforming the flashmob-style gathering into a colorful spectacle to usher in 2024. “I never thought people would actually show up. I never thought it would go viral,” Li told CNN Travel. He’s throwing it again this year, with over 33,000 people already expressing an interest in joining. The Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute has jumped on the bandwagon, hosting an outdoor screening of Vive L’Amour at the park, with the original cast joining the crowd to send off 2024, the 30th anniversary of the film’s premier
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