Movie

Taipei Story

1985 · 120 min

A quiet, haunting portrait of a relationship and a city drifting apart, leaving a lingering sense of loss and dislocation.

Overview: A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
How it feels: Melancholic, bleak, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, identity, memory, family
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
identity
memory
family
betrayal
Places: big city
workplace
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild