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1 December 2006 (China)
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True love.
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Chen Xiushui is an English teacher in Taiwan. The boy he tutors has a sister, Wang Biyun. They fall in love...
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16 wins
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Nationalist Soap
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Kun Chen | ... | Chen Qiushui / Chen Kunlun |
| Vivian Hsu | ... | Wang Biyun |
| Bingbing Li | ... | Wang Jindi |
| Han Chin | ... | Dr. Wang Tinwu |
| Kuei-Mei Yang | ... | Xu Feng-liang |
| Ya-lei Kuei | ... | Wang Bi-yun |
 | Isabella Leong | ... | Wang Xiao-rui |
| Steven Cheung | ... | Xue Zifu |
| Yin Zhu | ... | Mrs. Wang |
| Chin Yu | ... | Wang Yumeng |
| Suomayangjin | ... | Zhuma |
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The Knot (International: English title)
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Taiwan:117 min
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In October 2007, the film was selected by Mainland China to represent the country in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 2008 Oscars. It will compete against 62 other films.
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"The Knot" opens with a long, virtuoso shot reminiscent of Hitchcock, Antonioni, and De Palma. Don't get your hopes up. The rest of the movie is cheese, with comic characters, awkward dialog, sappy lighting, and an absurd story. Even the score is derivative in the silliest way, at one point—and I'm not making this up—reprising the theme from "Star Trek." Most disturbing, though, is the film's unrelieved nationalism, evidenced in the locations, the final image, and the symbolism of the story, none of which differentiate the film from propaganda.
On the plus side, the director did create a beautiful village with a really old tree and some very clean peasants.