The Good Daughter

“Think of my whole fate, like a line cut by the wind.”

Migrant workers and foreign brides, all are brave new Taiwanese

Ah-long is disabled from polio and plans to grow old as a bachelor. But his mother insisted on him forming a family and got him a foreign bride, Azhe, from Vietnam. Azhe’s family is poor but loving, so Azhe agreed to help her family situation by marrying to Taiwan. One of them has given up everything to become a wife in a small seaside village, the other has become a husband under the weight of filial obedience. Two people who are supposed to stand together have drifted apart in the face of discrimination and family pressure.

We see a couple who are bonded together by traditional and obligations, who frequently bicker while also protecting each other. This is Director Yu-Ying Wu’s debut documentary. Wu manages to capture an incredibly intimate angle of the two subjects, showings Azhe’s strength and Ah-long’s gentleness.