Very ordinary story that everyone would experience, yet no resonance would be generated with audiences due to the extreme annoying performances of the actress. Acting as a mom, the actress was being unrealistically emotional that would make audience wonder if she is acting an psychotic patient as well.
Simple and common plot + slow pace story telling style by director + insensible performance by actress = surely not worth your time.
Plot summary
Uprooted from Los Angeles after her mother is stricken with breast cancer, thirteen year old Fen struggles to adjust to life in Taipei. As Fen navigates her way through school and reconnects with her long-separated father, her turbulent bond with her mother worsens. Fen drifts further away from her mother through a series of rebellious acts before her younger sister is misdiagnosed with SARS, pushing Fen and her mother towards a heated, long-gestating confrontation.
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Not worth your 100mins
slow and not to the point
I appreciate its attempt to bring out the complex daughter-mother relationship and the struggle of returning to one's own origin. I do relate to the elder daughter's anger.
It's just unnecessary long and without much happening... I would like to know more about the family's back story like how they decided to move to the US, what happened there and why did the parent decided to get married.
Good story Poor casting
When a father and mother got that look and find someone cast their daughter with totally different look, whole thing become less convincing to me. Story is not bad with all the drastic change for a teenage who move back to Taiwan, just find someone more alike and less mean look would make audience to buy more this movie.