1. Seven Days in Heaven Group 3 96420536 Teresa 96420714 Betty 96420422 Lisa

2. Three main ideas  Show the background and plots of the movie  Analyze the leading roles of the movie  Give the comments about the movie

3. Background  Original: The composition which won the first prize of Lin Rung San literature award in 2006  The author of the original: Liu Tzu Chieh  Adaptation : Seven days in heaven  Award: best feature film nominees in Taipei Golden Horse  The date of release: 2010 / 8 /27

4. Opening her trip A-Mei came back to Taiwan to work on her father’s funeral, and reunited with her family.

5. Face with the unfamiliar funeral May faced with a series of rites including 1. Hsiao Lu Pai Chin 孝女白琴 2. Sutra-chanting group 3. Folding paper lotus flowers

6. Recall the past memory

7. A deep feeling of grief A-Mei suddenly came up with something sorrowful, and burst out tears…….

8. Character analyze The father (Lin Guo-yuan):  Optimistic person  Bring happiness to his family  Using action to care about his family ex: his daughter’s birthday

9. Character analyze The daughter (A-Mei):  This character revealed the irony of multifarious ceremonies ex: cry in the right time  Revealed her love for her father ex: her birthday sang with her father still want to buy a long strip of cigaratte  She can’t express her miss for her father while doing the long and meaningless ceremonies.

10. Character analyze A-mei’s brother ( Da-Chih)  The main support of this family after his father dead ex: sell CD keep with A-Mei  Love his father in silent ex: accompany to his father (night market seller) unbosom himself under the camera

11. Character analyze A-Yi (The taoist):  A character let audiences know the multifarious ceremonies  Emotional person ex: amateur poet low-spirited after knowing A-feng get marry

12. Character analyze Shiau-Chuang (A-Mei & Da-Chih’s younger consin):  An onlooker in this movie used camera to record this ceremony felt interested about the work of taoist  Finding some things through this character A-Yi is an amateur poet Da-Chih’s emotion

13. Character analyze A-Chin (A-Yi’s lover):  Show the biggest irony in this film “I have no tears when crying.” suggested councilor to show how he care about people she have no sad feeling when she worshiping Guo-yuan  Bring hope to A-Yi

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15. Comments

16. director used an exaggerated, humorous manner presented Taiwan's traditional funeral culture in the film. we face the death of nature. The funeral is really re-think of the dead style and finishing dead to life impression of the opportunity.

17. Meaning

18. Taiwan's traditional funeral culture Constraints and ridiculous rules Inheritance and continuity The epitome of Taiwanese society

19. Through these customs and rituals for many days successively, in order, although the deceased had been in the past, but also for the living to heal the mind and precipitation means. Taiwan's traditional funeral culture

20. Constraints and ridiculous rules Perhaps some of the rules really are inevitable, must be observed, from another point of thought, this does not also contain the people's emotions?

21. Inheritance and continuity Although the death of an end of life, but also represents the beginning of another extension. Both among people living in the world, or between birth and death, there are bound to the transmission technology or experience; with heritage, including memory and emotion, including the intangible value was able to continue.

22. The epitome of Taiwanese society 阿琴 - the grass-roots politicians in Taiwan business network relationships. 阿義 - a considerable extent explains the country's economic activities in Taiwan live. 小莊 - complex cousin's family on behalf of the people of Taiwan have a relationship both chaotic and humorous terms, but also to new technologies and old rituals played a mixed effect.

23. Reference http://4bluestones.biz/mtblog/2010/06/post- 1965.html http://tw.movie.yahoo.com/movieinfo_main.ht ml/id=3533 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSnSx7lHz w