Selected by MOMA, New York in Documentary Exhibition 2008
Director: 鍾孟宏 Mong-Hong Chung
Length: 92 mins
Year: 2006
Storyline:
On US Independence Day, 1996, Taiwanese-American 13-year-old genius Felix posted a puzzling notice on the door of his bedroom. Three hours later, he had ended his own life. Devasteted, his father, Dr. Wen, left Iowa City, his home of twenty years, and moved to Miami. Though the sunny, warm clime and passage of time have distanced him from the traumatic experience, his grief and perplexity linger. Six years after Felix's death, a boy from Peru, Sabastian, comes to receive treatment for cancer from Dr. Contrast to Wen. Sabastian's optimism brings a new perspective to Dr. Wen. Through the stories of the two adolescents and Dr. Wen's loving concern for them, the documentary portrays with touching compassion of the transcience, struggles, mysteriousness and preciousness of life.
一九九六年美國獨立紀念日的下午，才華洋溢的華裔男孩Felix在房間門口貼了一則令人不解的告示，三個小時之後，他結束了自己的生命。當時，在美國執業的溫醫生正帶著第一次從台灣來到美國看他以及長孫女的父母親看煙火表演，接到此惡耗的他，傷痛之餘，離開了愛荷華，遠居邁阿密。六年後，一位來自秘魯與其子年齡相彷的男孩Sabastian，正接受溫醫師化療。相對於Felix對於死亡的極度好奇，對生命充滿樂觀的Sabastian最後終究不敵癌症而離開人世。透過兩個同齡男孩的故事，以及兩代之間親子的思念—醫生父親對愛子的思念，醫生在台灣的母親對兒子的心疼—本片透露在呼吸瞬間的生命價值一種深層的思考。
Awards:
2006 Best Documentary, Taipei Film Festival 台北電影節最佳紀錄片
2006 Asian Award, Taiwan International Documentary Festival 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展「亞洲獎」優等獎
2007 Official Selection, Nyon International Documentary Film Festival Visions du Réel 瑞士真實電影節「新關注」入圍
2008 MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York, Documentary Exhibition 紐約現代美術館紀錄片雙周展
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