三華記 Urban Sonnets

[ Urban Sonnets ]

a film of Huang Shih-Chia

2003, 49 min, Taiwan, Chinese with English subtitles, Color, DVD
This film got Funds fo Taipei Culture Affairs.

--There is a kind of tree. In Shanghai, people call it French parasol. However in France, it is called Chinese parasol.—

A documentary about two young people from Taipei Taiwan, seeking dream fulfillment and careers in China, traveling across unexpected cultural boundaries in Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Within the process of walking toward, they got different thought and new attitude to face something so called “Future”.

三個城市，一男一女，取樣隨機。我跟著他們的腳步，去了傳說中杜月笙的上海灘、全世界最長的半山電梯，聽到了一些不同華語的俐落纏綿。

這是關於兩個台灣年輕人的青春盛年，收拾簡單的行囊，他們分別到上海與香港去工作與生活。耳邊聽的是不甚熟悉的上海話/粵語，吃的是不太家鄉的中國菜，每日面對的是各種華人世界融混的文化衝擊。

在這段追尋的過程中，終於，他們聽到了自己心裡發出的聲音，也漸漸目光篤定而清明，穩著步子邁向前方，那所謂的「未來」。