Cape No. 7

I watched a Taiwanese movie called "Cape No. 7" today. It's tagline was:

"Everybody's heart habors an undelivered love letter"

For the record, I didn't pick it up ONLY because of the tagline. It also apparently won awards and the like. Amusingly, I couldn't read the synopsis on the back, but hey, with awards and a tagline like that, instant winner.

Right?

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

It all takes place in Taipei, which is a place in Taiwan (really?!). The main storyline in the movie is about an upcoming concert at a beach, but the singer is...Japanese.

This displeases the representative councilman.

So he convinces the host of the concert (who is NOT Taiwanese) that the opening band will be composed of locals.

And then there are a bunch of characters that, together, form the band.

Oh, and it also delves (barely) into the pasts and presents (I mean it, barely) of the members' love lives. It's definitely interesting. Amusingly there are 3 predominant languages being spoken in the movie.

Mandarin.

Taiwanese.

Japanese.

And of course I can't understand any of them, but that's what subtitles are for.

From a kind of rough start, the movie reaches a pretty good high point, and then just ends rather abruptedly, without a lot of epilogue (especially for a certain couple). Aside from this little...irk of mine, I can safely say that I liked the movie, but it definitely isn't for everyone.

I found that it was very...interesting in the fact that you never really find out EVERYTHING about any of the characters. There's a few motivations and such, but nothing substantial, and yet it still remains an enjoyable movie.

Oh, and the characters aren't very likable. Still solid movie though, despite that (didn't exactly like the main character from The Skycrawlers but that was an AWESOME movie).