Yi-yi [2000]
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, his business partners
make bad decisions against his advice, and he reconnects with his first
love 30 years after he dumped her. His teenage daughter Ting-Ting
watches emotions roil in their neighbors' flat and is experiencing the
first stirrings of love. His 8-year-old son Yang-Yang is laconic like
his dad and pursues truth with the help of a camera. "Why is the world
so different from what we think it is?" asks Ting-Ting.
