"Your the best Mom I could have asked for"
A Chinese woman name Kuo attempts to find her birth mother in Taipei.
Kuo is a thirty something year old woman who works as a flight medic. Not long after she was born in Taipei she was adopted by an American family. The question of her birth family was somewhat of a mystery because she was a child connected to an infamous scandal where a woman was obtaining babies under questionable circumstances, misdirection and possible out right theft was involved. While Kuo sorted out some of her past other parts remain clouded and she goes to try and find it.
This is a super short film that I would love to see expanded into a feature film both because the subject has a lot to it but also because there is potentially more to it that is coming. Director Hsi Cheng does something most directors would never do and that is let the subject tell their story and lets it go where it will. The result is a very real film that makes us feel like we really know Kuo and her mother. It’s so moving that when I heard the final line I got misty.
This is great filmmaking
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