Hsiao-hsien Hou's Dust In The Wind (1987) opens in an impressive fashion with a speck of light that opens up into the lush green hillsides of Taiwan. It is a leisurely tale of economic hardships that complicate the lives of two teens who are trying to stay together while getting ahead in life through work first in Taipei, by escaping the harsh lives that their fathers and neighbors faced as coal miners in the rural countryside. Added complications such as mandatory military service make staying together an impossibility. Fate sometimes rules lives more strongly than good intentions.
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