Cape No. 7 - 1

"Cape No. 7" (海角七號) (2008) opens with a young man, Aga (Van Fan) in the wee hours of Taipei city. The young man's face is not shown on camera and for that reason the director seems to suggest he can really be any one of those many losers who can't make it in the big city. We find out later Aga has wasted fifteen years of his youth trying to crack a rock career in Taipei without success. Now dispirited and yet not losing his rock and roll modus operanti, he smashes his guitar and curses Taipei goodbye before embarking his home coming trip to Hengchun, a southern coastal resort town where the young yearns to leave and some geezer just won't die. Taipei 101 sure does not look too good in the rear view mirror but neither is what he is about to face: his stepfather, the town representative who has a penchant to carry a manbag and a bunch of other losers just like him.