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According to a report by the "4wayvoice", the Taiwanese film "Days Before the Millennium" (徘徊年代) is about the story of new immigrants in Taiwan and invited the Golden Horse Queen Chen Shu-Fang (金馬影后陳淑芳), the famous Vietnamese new immigrant Internet celebrity Nguyen Thu Hang (阮秋姮) and others for the film, and the movie received good reviews. In addition to being selected for the Taipei Film Festival's International New Director Competition (台北電影節國際新導演競賽), and it was invited to the "A Window on Asian Cinema" (亞洲之窗) section of the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea (BIFF, 韓國釜山影展) on September 15.
According to comprehensive media reports, "Days Before the Millennium" uses two stories of Vietnamese women to describe the marriage situation of the new immigrants after their arrival in Taiwan. The film uses the stories of two women to show the lives of the new immigrants under the social changes happening in Taiwan in the years from 1990 to 2000, their marriage situation and integration issues into Taiwan. The movie uses a lot of Vietnamese dialogues to tell the history of the new immigrants during this turbulent era.
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"Days Before the Millenium" depicts the mental journey of the new immigrants in Taiwan. Photo/iFilm
"Days Before the Millennium" is directed by Chang Teng-Yuan (張騰元). This is the first feature film he directed during the epidemic. After graduating from Shih Hsin Department of Radio, Television and Film (世新廣電系), he visited many Vietnamese new immigrants who run restaurants during his college years and used this as inspiration to shoot the first short film "Crossing the Sentimental Desert" (焉知水粉), which won a merit award by the Golden Harvest Awards (金穗獎) for outstanding student work and was nominated for Taipei Film Awards for best short film.
The film “Days Before the Millennium” shows his concern about the issue of new immigrants. The plot tells the story of a Vietnamese woman "Wen Hui" who got married in Taiwan in the 1990s but found that life after coming to Taiwan was not as happy and fulfilling as she imagined. The pressure of reality was too much for her, but in the 2000s, a Vietnamese woman who served as a credit investigator saw her ideals in Wen Hui's story and began to trace Wen Hui's past.
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"Days Before the Millenium" was well received and advanced to the "Busan International Film Festival". Photo/iFilm
Park Sung-Ho (朴成浩), one of the curators of the BIFF, praised this as a great movie, and the actors were very competent. He said that after watching the movie, it makes people fall into reflection, "What is the deep meaning of nationality? How do we make the world a better place?” Director Chang Teng-Yuan was very excited when the news of the selection came out. He said that although he could not participate in person because of the epidemic, he believed that the movie would tell us everything. “There are also many new immigrants in Korea, and we expect the movie “Days Before the Millennium” will resonate there."
