The movie Shower showcases the changing of Chinese society, in which people more work centered, and pays less attention to families. Furthermore, it showcases how the urban people look down upon the traditional people.

It starts with someone going to a shower booth. I personally believe this to be the most eye opening scene, while at the same time pushing the objective of the director; that is showing the discrepancies and gaps between the fast paced urban centers and slower paced tradition neighborhood. The people goes into the booth, takes off his clothes and puts it into a basket, which he then puts into some vents. I am still uncertain of what that was suppose to do though. Perhaps wash the clothes for him or spray perfume on it to make it smell better? In any case, he goes into this room where brushes begin cleaning him as if he was a car in a car wash.

That man ends up receiving a letter from his little brother, whom is retarded, and makes that man think his father was dead. As such, he rushed back to his hometown where he realized that he misinterpreted the letter. The relationship between the father and the man seems relatively dense when compared to the little brother’s relationship to the father. 

Originally, he was planning to return back home immediately when he realized that his father was well; However, he ended up loosing his brother while he was a train station because the little brother got attracted to a yellow bicycle. The father get, naturally, upset at him, but the next day, the little brother had returned home on his own. 

The man seemed to have regained his senses while he stayed there, that is, he remembered why he liked the hometown and stopped looking down one the neighborhood folk. On the man’s stay however, his father died, and due to his younger brother, he was forced to stay at his fathers bath and continue business as usual. 

The important thing to mention for the strained relation between the man and his father is that the father never seen the man’s wife. Not during the engagement meet-up, wedding ceremony, or any other occasion. I believe it was a huge insult to the father for the man to hide his wife from his father as such.

The movie Touch of the Light showcases the challenges and obstacles a disabled person has to go through life, and in this case, a person that is blind.

The film begins with a blind person preparing to go to Taipei in order to get a degree in music. However, the university the blind man is going to never dealt with a blind person, so they are concerned they wont be able to handle the person. However, the school isn't the only problem the blind man has to go through. Although the situation has gotten better as the film progressed, at the beginning, no-one in the class wished to be associated with him. When there was a group project, no-one wished for the blind man to be with them, and there was even a student who told him not to waste his time.

At the beginning stages, the mother helped the blind man adopt. She helped him with transversing around campus, and helped him organize things in his dorm. Furthermore, it seemed that the mother had an influence on helping the blind man’s dorm mate accept him. Although, this is just my intuition, and perhaps I am wrong. 

Later, the blind man and the dorm mate created a club together, and in the final stages, they did a group performance. One thing to note was that the blind man did not like performing in concerts. This is because when he was a child, he overheard someone say that he won a contest only because he was blind, and that the judges felt bad for him. However, it seems that both the club and his crush persuaded him to start performing in the concerts again.

One thing I would like to highlight is how the director portrayed the blind people as people who couldn't completely understand the environment around, and as a result, requires special care. For example, after becoming more familiar with his crush, he asked “What is Dancing?” And it became like a personal quest to find out what it was like to dance. There was a scene where, after receiving an explanation from his roommate of what dancing is like, he started attempting to dance in his own bed.

Shanghai Triad takes place in Shanghai in which a country boy moves over to Shanghai with his uncle and joins a gang organization.

At the beginning, the country boy was unaware of what he was getting himself into. Perhaps the first time he might have gotten a sense of what he was he was getting himself into was when he went to an empty building with his uncle, where he heard gunfire. However, it is more probable that he was confused of the environment.

Later, when he went to the gang headquarters, he was assigned to become the gang’s mistress’s servant. Afterwards, he has been directed to a hallway in which he first saw the gang leader. It was there that he learned that the gang leader only hired those with the Tang family name. I think this is particularly striking because it represents the importance that the Chinese puts on the family name, if the gang leader would only trust the people with the Tang family name. 

Later on, there has been a gunfire within the gang headquarters itself, in which the country boy’s uncle died. This is an important turn of events, because this is when the country boy starts wishing for revenge towards the opposing faction. This event has also led to a new scene, in which four gang members, including the leader, mistress, and country boy, moves over to an island where only one widowed women and her daughter lived. 

Eventually, the people starting to learn too much about the gang leader’s shady side, including the country boy. As a result, the gang leader killed the widowed woman’s loved one, the widowed woman, a man from an opposing faction, and the mistress. However he spared the country boy’s life. I think this was due to the loyalty he displayed, even when he disliked someone. For instance, even though the country boy disliked the mistress, he still remained loyal to her and even attempted to

protect her when she was about to get killed. As a result, the gang leader likely saw the boy as a potentially valuable asset.