Chicago International Film Festival

We went to the Chicago international film festival which is a big popular event, and it was a real great experience to join into the pop-culture of the world. And it began our Chinese club AMC weekly activity. we had seen a movie call " a place one's own "

A PLACE OF ONE’S OWN
Movie Review

A Place of one’s own is a straight and narrow film of Taiwan city movie. It isn’t a very excellent product of Taiwan movie, but as a Taiwanese representatives film, it did not lose the level. Taiwan movie traditionally have a good plot reflecting some issue indirectly, thoughtfully and without any digital effect. APOOO were completely fit into this model. Taiwan movie prefer serious and thoughtful. They don’t like to use visual stimulation to grab attentions or present their idea, however they still have some hook. In this movie director Lou Yi-An using rock music as the hook of this film to try to get Taiwan teenager’s attention, but as I can see, I don’t think it is a successful hook. In fact, the rock music in this film is the most terrible part, because Lou Yi-An using an actor which is without any rock music experience to perform the rock singer and sang the film song of this film were real bed. But in other hand, the origami houses plot part was much better than the rock music part. I think origami houses already a real good hook for foreigners who were interested in Chinese culture. Origami houses are houses for afterlife. The main performer Jack Gao who was one of best Taiwan movie performer, performing the main characters Master Lin, Master Lin had builds origami houses all of his life, but his life were closing the end, he was still not able to buy a houses for his family, so his final dream is builds a huge origami house for his afterlife. The story were Opening with this housing issue and using full length shot to Stating the whole story which is teems with life. As a foreign film, it wasn’t easy to understand the episodic actions even it converged, but it was a treat trying to make sense of the culture-specific aspects of the film and marvel at the way these origami houses are constructed. In conclusion, If you are a big fans of Hollywood it will real bore you. But if you were enough with Hollywood’s boring plot and not very care there are no direct visual stimulation, it will be a really chance to explore the eastern movie.