Movie Review Internetional Film Festival

This film called "A Place of One's Own". It was a dramatic and Musical movie from Taiwan that showed in the movie festivial in Chicago. The film Directed by Lou Yi An. The movie had a good storyline but the ending was a mysterious. This movie made you knowing the differences between poor and wealthy people how to get their own place wether they were dead or alife. The plot is about a rock singer Mozi finds his popularity on the decline when he is arrested for taking drugs and at the same time got dumped by also singer girlfriend, Kasey whose popularity is on the rise. Mozi wrote a love song to Kasey to persuade her to come back but it was failed. As his music CD sold going down, he also got debt and had to live alone in an apartment he used to share with her. Master Lin lived with his wife Yue and son Xiao Gang who was a computer genius wanted to try his luck on real estate and tries to sell Mozi’s apartment and lived on a mountain which is close to a cemetery. Master Lin worked as funeral origami maker who built giant origami paper houses for the dead. One day Master Lin was heavily pressurized by the property developers to sell his land but he refused although he needs the money badly to treat his cancer illness. Meanwhile, Yue was a grave keeper and one day she listened to the voices of the dead and knen the secret. Kasey’s career took off, Mo-zi struggled to pay off debts and faced getting out of his appartment. Their relationship strained, Mozi refuses to accept any help from Kasey. He even rejectd the song she wrote for him every year on his birthday. When Mozi finished a song for Kasey on the top of a building, he fell down from it and he has gone. This film was set on the mountain and a poor village. This film is not for the couples to watch. Couples retreat. Mozi refuses to be together with Kasey and he gives up himself. If you are a music fan, especially a rock music fan that you should watch it, it contains lots of background music which is rock genre in every exciting scenes.