- English name：Dust in the Wind
- Broadcast time：1987
- Starring：辛树芬、王晶文
- director：侯孝贤（Hou Hsiao-hsien）
Today, I will introduce a Chinese film which called Dust in the Wind (恋恋风尘liàn liàn fēng chén). So let us have a brief introduction.
Dust in the Wind is a 1986 critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful movie by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien (侯孝贤Hóu Xiàoxián).
This film is based on co-screenwriter Wu Nien-jen‘s (吴念真Wú Niànzhēn) own experiences, and the final part of Hou’s coming-of-age trilogy, the others being A Summer at Grandpa’s (1984) and The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985).
Synopsis
A love story about a young couple from a village in the northern-east part of Taiwan. The boy, Ah-yuan goes to Taipei to work after graduating from junior high school so he can earn money to send home. The girl, Ah-yun follows him the next year and they work hard to earn enough money to marry. Then Ah-yuan must spend three years in the military and the girl marries someone else. Although Ah-yuan regrets what happened he does not blame Ah-yun.
This is a very fabulous film.
Plot
The protagonists of the story are Ah Yun (played by Xin Shufen) and Ah Yuan (played by Wang Jingwen), a couple from the countryside. They have been childhood sweethearts, and almost everyone around them believes that they will be together for life. After graduating from junior high school, they left their hometowns and worked together to make a living in Taipei City. Afterwards, Ah Yuan joined the army to serve, while Ah Yun gradually alienated their relationship as they waited day after day. A “mutiny” occurred in the army, and the relatives in his hometown were in panic hoping for news from him, but Ah Yun couldn’t stand the loneliness and eventually fell in love with someone else and married the postman who delivered letters for them every day. At the end of the movie, the hero Ayuan returns home after retiring from the army. He is alone looking at everything that is becoming increasingly unfamiliar to him. He goes to the fields to visit his grandfather (played by Li Tianlu) who is taking care of sweet potatoes. While listening to his grandfather chattering about everything that has happened around him over the years, he watches the shadows of the clouds moving over the hills. At that moment, with the advent of growth and the passage of time, all the beauty and sorrow in his memory seem to have turned into bubbles like floating clouds.
