Travelling is always the best way to encounter true stories. Ming-Hsang, a deaf, decided to cycle around Taiwan before graduating from the college. This film, lasting for 100 minutes, documents his trip which lasted 7 days and 6 nights. He camped at the beach of Tai-Ma-Li on the first evening, playing guitar. Although he has hearing problems, he is still very much interested in sounds. The next morning, he followed Tai-11 highway. He met a group of people filming MV at the ea... (Full plot summary below)
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Travelling is always the best way to encounter true stories. Ming-Hsang, a deaf, decided to cycle around Taiwan before graduating from the college. This film, lasting for 100 minutes, documents his trip which lasted 7 days and 6 nights. He camped at the beach of Tai-Ma-Li on the first evening, playing guitar. Although he has hearing problems, he is still very much interested in sounds. The next morning, he followed Tai-11 highway. He met a group of people filming MV at the east coastline. They also film him. The third day, he was on the Su-Hua highway, a highway notoriously difficult to conquer for cyclists. He met a Lithuanian girl at Han-Ben railway station. She missed the train to Hua-Lien. He helped her to get on her train by communication with her by pens and papers.
Leave your thoughts about Island Etude.
| Filmcritic.comDon WillmottWhile Island Etude will obviously have special resonance for Taiwanese viewers, anyone can take something away from Ming's grueling, poetic journey. |
| User ReviewAnthony TIsland Etude is a story about the youth,f aith and dreams, and also a review on the Taiwan's beautiful scenery. |
| User Reviewwill bReally beautiful movie this is. We all are related with others, that is why we can be here. I got an energy to look forward. |
| User ReviewRob AIt's quite different from the ordinary films in the sense that it hardly has any climax. It's more like a recording of things, places, and people the main character meet along his journey around the beautiful island. It also records and looks at the life and vews of ordinary people in a fascinaing way. |
| User ReviewPrivate Ufull of philosophy, but too much to digest for one time |
| User ReviewLynn CCaptures what it's like to travel alone. By the end I almost felt as if I had done the trip myself. Just the movie I needed to see! |
| User ReviewMargaret BPretty hard to go wrong with a cute boy riding a bike around an island... |
| User ReviewBetty TA guitar,a travelling bag,a bike,undistinguished ears,a shinny boy,an one-person-journey sorround the island...all of these composed a etude. |
| User ReviewRichard Ha good literary movie from taiwan. again :-) |
| User ReviewAyk IMy uncle's first auteurist effort. The film greatly popularised biking in Taiwan after its release. |
