this is a movie produced in 1983, although it's a kinda old movie, although I was born so much later compared to the movie, I would like to say, this is the one of the best movies I have ever watched in my life.
It is a movie demonstrating how great a father's love can be, to his beloved daughter....i swear each time I watched,ever since i was 4 or 5 years old until recently, I watch the whole movie again part by part in youtube, i cried from part 1/9 to part 9/9 and it haunted me for 2 days, each time I flashback about the movie, my heart feels kinda sour...
here is the link to this movie, and I found english subtitles for those who don't understand Taiwanese's mandarin...
here is the short summary of the movie...
the main character, the father, is a deaf man who collects and sells old alcohol bottles, making enough living to barely feed himself and his wife...one fine morning, he passes by a thrash bin and he found a young baby crying in the thrash, her biological mother has abandoned her but named her 'Ah Mei'..
that man brought her home, not knowing that his wife will be upset about this matter.To her, their life has been considered poor enough to feed both of them and now,he brought back another child, someone else's child, and she knows it is not cheap to feed a child. Ah Mei's crying and the hard life they lead where the father needs to feed 3 persons with the little money he makes, the man's wife decided to leave him....
the man wanted to make her stay,but as the child cries, he turned back, he chose the child instead of his wife...his wife left him..and him,a man who cannot speak a word, decided to dedicate his life to raise her up and to love her whole-heartedly...unconditional love,i should say...
the child finally grow up...and she saved a German Shepherd who is injured..named it 'Lai Fu'...an obedient and loyal dog, a girl and her father, together this family was built...
years and years passed...the girl finally grew up into a fine lady, she got a job in a lounge bar where she works as a singer in that bar....little did she noticed, a young man, Shi Jun Mai, noticed her, he is a song composer and lyrics writer, he spotted her and thinks she is of rare talent...
they then got closer, he writes and composes songs for her to sing in the lounge bar, little did they realised, it changes her life completely when her rare talent in singing was spotted by the production company (I am not so sure what do people call those companies who sign artists)..
Ah Mei signed contract with the company, to be a singer, with the conditions where she needs to change her name to Sun Jui Chi and she needs to cheat about her family background to make her fans thinks that she comes from a wealthy and well-educated family....
in her celebration party after her successful concert in Taiwan, her father attended it without invitation because he misses her so much since she does not goes home for months now, she was forced by her manager not to admit that the old man in his rags is her father, and her father loves her so much that he showed to the media with his sign language that he is not her father but a fraud...and he left the party
life is even more unbearable when his dog, Lai Fu, died when trying to save him from a reckless motorcycle rider....
on the other hand, she then got famous real fast and moved to a bigger condominium prepared by the company,
and her distant with her boyfriend, Shi Jun Mai, who always be there with her, grows, he feels she has changed into someone he no longer know, no longer the innocent girl he met singing in the bar...he then left her...
she had her tour concert in Asia...at the same time, her father's health is getting worse...
Shi Jun Mai went to visit her father,and he wrote a soulful song for her,hoping that she would sing it in her Taiwan concert after her Asia tour..the song was about her father and her...
when she came back to Taiwan after her Asia tour,her manager stopped her from meeting her father of her tight schedule and upcoming concert..
that night, her father watches her concert through the television's screen, suddenly...his heart grows ill and he was immediately admitted to hospital...
unable to speak or move, his eyes showed that he is missing Ah Mei badly....his friend who sent him to hospital, rushed to the concert and had Ah Mei rushing to hospital to see him for one last chance...
unfortunately, she couldn't make it...he stopped breathing before he could see her...
the movie ended with Ah Mei singing the song Shi Jun Mai wrote for her, in the concert, dedicated to her father....
* I am too lazy to bother to either write in past tense or present tense anymore *
as long as anyone who reads this understand...
cheers,
Shuying
