Cape No. 7 - 0

"Cape No. 7" asks questions about human conditions: What do you do when confronted and confounded by failures? Do we carry burden of our nation? Are we mere products of our time? How do you love somebody? First-time feature director Wei Te-Sheng may not have all the answers to all the perennial questions he raises but he sure puts all these questions into his director blender and with the skill of a true master produces a rich multi-layered unostentatiously beautiful movie that at once entertains and enlightens and more than anything gives hopes to human conditions. This little big movie may very likely turn out to be a Zeitgeist of south Taiwan.