
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
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"𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙨𝙚𝙚? 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙚𝙚. 𝙎𝙤 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙚𝙚?" "𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. 𝙄 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩." "𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝?" "𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩? 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙩." "𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙." Watching this film just after your first year of college ends really hits you right to the core. Life doesn't stop for anyone; whatever our own biggest decisions or choices are, they set the motion for the rest of our everyday lives. It feels as though if we had wanted to get much more out of our lives, maybe we could've wished for and chosen different paths to take. We can only ever think of the different possibilities of the lives we could have lived. 𝗘𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗬𝗮𝗻𝗴'𝘀 "𝙔𝙞 𝙔𝙞" epitomizes the mundane or monotonous reality of people's lives, highlighting the disparity between the worlds of youth and adults. The film captures the adversities and harshness of their lives, whether it is love, depicted through the teenagers' involvement in a triangular relationship, or the adults reminiscing about the past and bidding farewell to a loved one. It also portrays challenges in business, where a child is discouraged by the opposite gender in school, and adults manage trials and tribulations in business and the economy. The film further explores familial connections, depicting a newly married couple navigating their lives and making ends meet, and the challenges faced in old age by their grandmother, putting the family in distress.