(4) Similar toThe Breakfast Club except entertaining and great story: made in 1985, around the same time of Dust in the Wind in the late 1980’s. None of those actors or actresses was professionally trained; also the entire movie was filmed in the local areas. Critics considered as one of the greatest high school/coming-of-age films of all time. While, it has comedy and entertaining, and it is mainly because it has a great story line, I think; Dust in the Wind has no a great story.

(4) But I think, it has a dull realistic life with concatenated into family life, youth or a living wage, sometimes just like a documentary film. Valuable!

(4) If studio records the film with realistic life and not much of dialogues, but I think that is one of purposes for this film.

(4)Uncertainly Avoidance

(Customer Service)

Or

Collectivism (Family Theme)

5. More Context than Content: possibly makes viewing the film into the wrong way or in an unintentional way:

(1) His Bride Married To Another Guy: One possibly unintentional observation may be that Ah-Yun is a faithless woman who cheated on Ah-Yuan without telling him about her marriage to a good job?postman officer until three years later.

(1) Ah-Yun may thought there is no future between her and Ah-Yuan so decided to take further steps for her life.

(1) It’s surprising to see Ah-Yun married to a post man at the end.

(1)Uncertainty Avoidance (Ah-Yun’s faithless)

(2) Less Confidence: Another possible observation is that Ah-Yuan is a loser, who can’t handle a simple job tasks and is too scared to speak up to Ah-Yun anything.

(2) Ah-Yuan only care about himself which makes him a selfish person.

(2) Ah-Yuan had not enough self-confidence to speak even for his job tasks.

(2) Uncertainty Avoidance (job tasks, etc.)

(3) Until Very Adult: Ah-Yuan’s father pours the wine for Ah-Yuan is to show his father finally treats him as a man instead of little boy. But if Ah-Yuan’s father gave him a persuasive speech instead that way, the audience would think his father is an influential person.

(3) Trustworthiness Tolerance, Moral, Intimate character: Ah-Yuan’s mother showed symbol of trust worthiness and still hoped to give the ring (his family’s Heirloom) to Ah-Yun, even though she was married to other man; the grandfather’s tolerance, moral, intimate character, are all the traditional of Chinese human generations.

(3) For Chinese traditional loyalty, the two families didn’t want to break as the agreement was made early when the couple were very young.

(3):High Levels of

Collectivism

(Family)

(4) Lack Courage to Express One’s Own Feeling: Even though they were living closer to each other, their relationship was strained from their inability to express the love that they have for one another.

(4) Ah-Yuan needs to be more confidence about himself. However, that is kind of human.

(4) The Relationship of the couple involved several challenges but Ah-Yuan didn’t face any of those. Maybe he was younger with a little impetuous.

(4) Low levels of

Masculinity (Ah-Yuan)

6. The Audiences: Mr. Hou’s films would be interesting to the older generation of viewers nostalgia or those who enjoy absolute realism.

I like the film, a new generation of viewers like it, too; and it also would meet foreigners to look at these films as Taiwan growth history.

Everyone has different taste in watching films.

Power Distance Index

(Service) +

7. Entertainment and Great Story is the Key to Attract the Audience

Cape No. 7 and You Are the Apple of My Eyes are the more successful Taiwanese films for audiences even internationally to watch.

In the beginning there are some films may be considered low budget or bad “quality”, at last they receive loved and their true quality generally lies within the storytelling.

Story is important, Taiwan is full of story resource.

But I like the films analyzing real social phenomenon.

Uncertainly Avoidance

8. The Ways the Film as a Significant indication of the Social Culture Taiwan

(1) Military Service:

a. Males aged 18: adult males need to participate into the military at the age of 18;

(1)

a. Taiwan was in war with China during 1949-1987.

(1)

a. Even in the modern day, military Taiwan still drifts the middle-aged males to military sometimes.

(1)

a. Collectivism (Military)

b. Affect Young Couple’s Marriage: Young ladies do not want to wait for the men to complete their service that influencing to marry to another gay;

b. Ah-Yun discovered the post man has stable income and decided to marry him instead of Ah-Yuan.

b. Ah-Yun should have showed up when she was about to marry to the other person.

b. Power Distance (Ah-Yun married to a powerful man with higher social status)