How High Is The Mountain

In this documentary director Tang records his own sons birth and growing up his fathers recovering from a stroke and a nostalgic trip home to China In the 1940s his father evacuated with the Nationalist troops to Taiwan after it lost the Mainland to the Communist in the war It wasnt until 1980s were people allowed to go home to visit in Mainland China From his search for the earliest memory of life with a close observation and sensitivity he exams the parallels of the different lives of a different time In his previous work HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN director Tang ends it with the ultrasound image of his unborn child representing the beginning of a new life With this work HOW HIGH IS THE MOUNTAIN it is rather a beginning of a series of questions about life and a continuation of examination of his own life and the longing of a perfect world