Xiao Tang (the dashing Taiwanese newcomer Mo Zi-Yi) records sounds around Taipei - the raging seas, the rustling of the leaves, the passing train, the blaring karaoke - transfers them on a cassette tape, then regularly mails them to a girl who broke his heart. Unknown to him, she has moved elsewhere and Wu (a new tenant) gets his mails - mails which don't bear his name or return address. As these tapes pile up, Wu (Kwai Lun-Mei) becomes intrigued with the sender and gets clues from his recordings to find him. This takes both of them on a road trip that also includes another lost soul, a shrink(Jiao Xiao Guo) who himself needs psychotherapy.
I love the way the narrative is explored in "The Most Distant Course", taking unpredictable detours in lingering scenes that boast of somber landscapes and unconventional storytelling. The romantic in me is tickled pink. Isn't it a girl's dream for a cute guy like Mo Zi-Yi to constantly send me stuff that he painstakingly records?
It just makes me blush.
Mo Zi-Yi is welcome to keep sending me his "recordings"! And I can't wait for director Lin Jing-Jie's 2nd movie either! "The Most Distant Course" won at the Venice Film Festival in 2007.
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