Gu wei

Personally, I was very emotional throughout many scenes in this movie. Mainly because I am a Chinese to Canada immigrant. The countless words in English cannot describe what I felt and what I am feeling after I watched this film. I felt connected, and for the first time, emotionally invested in this film. Although it is a Taiwanese film, our culture is not too different. I felt warmth from this movie, sadness, nostalgia, and it was, in a sense, relatable. If I did not have the background I do, I wouldn't be giving this movie such a high rating. The plot wasn't especially exceptional, and a lot of things may be confusing. However, it really tugs on my heartstrings. It opens my eyes to family connections, about letting go, and really impacted me because of certain experiences in real life. Overall, I found this a great film, but that is a complete personal opinion.

A drama from Taiwan. It is about a woman and her daughters who must perform the funeral rites of their ex-husband and father, unleashing the pain and kept secrets. Quality. Hard. Reflexive. Daily. Interpretative. Parsimonious in the extreme. At times you feel that nothing happens in more than two hours of movies, you must stay until the end. Talk about letting go of things from the past that hurt us, about forgiveness and love. About those things that we hope for and live each day being happy despite life's situations. Of family relationships and their disruptions. A detail that, as they all look alike, some stories become confusing and that some moments you must interpret. A film that shows that a woman's heart is a sea of love and secrets.

Keeps you on your toes...remembering names...who is related to who...married to who. But, well worth watching. All families are confronted with the same issues...no matter the culture or nationality.

It was like a glass of wine that I was not hurry to drink but just watching it slowly filled up. At first, I just felt a little bitter in my throat but then it had a powerful aftereffect which made my rims of eyes red with unstoppable grievances, sadness and tears. Everyone had different memory about the past and as time past by, only the true emotion and feeling were left. At the same time, these emotion and feeling were so individual that they crashed into each other. The heroine was an aggrieved woman and she was also a strong mother. She decided to vanish all those love and hatred deep inside her heart at her husband's funeral without attendance. But her grievances have landed in my mind. Although this story ended in harmonious had some ridiculous plots, it was exactly the blandness and doughtiness that the heroine showed during her life, the contradiction and harmony in this little family, the perfect performance of the leading actress, and all the just-right and full emotion, made this sincere film so addicted.

With the tradition and Chinese culture this movie performed it impeccably. Taiwan is one of the countries with strong family value and love surround between people. Mainland China cannot make this kind of movie as their product is always overdramatic, hk and Singapore won't have this background support and will become lame for this topic and always commercial kind. This movie just so natural and telling a story in a woman family. It just full of love and tears from this movie, if you have connection with any Taiwanese and been in their culture, you will like it.