Taipei exchange

Directed by: Hisao Ya-chuan

Produced by: Hou Hsiao-hsien

Written by: Hsiao Ya-chuan

Starring: Kwai Lun-chuan

        Zaizai Lin

        Hou Zhi-jian

This is an exchange story happens in a coffee shop. Doris opens a coffee shop with her younger sister, Josie. They ask their guests to bring a gift at the opening ceremony, but the gifts filled over the shop. So Josie gets an idea and starts to let customers to trade things that they think the item is equal value.

In my opinion, this story is really interesting, and also I like the style of directing which is really humor and funny. In the story, everyone has their own dream, and Doris’s dream is to open a coffee shop and exchange items in her coffee shop. One day she met one customer who is a pilot. He has 36 handmade soaps, then he shares his stories with Doris, and Doris draws for his stories which are basic on each soap. After that, Doris gets a dream because of his stories, which is traveling around the world. So she gives the store to a travel agency and her sister in order to exchange 36 cities’ airplane tickets.

When I watched this movie, I felt I was reaching my dream. I want to travel all over the world, too. In my point of view, keep going to follow your dream, no matter how hard to reach just keeps going to do, is important and hard thing to insist in everyone’s life. But you should believe that one day the dream will come true.