Plot summary
Doris simply wanted to open a refined, stylish coffee shop in a bohemian Taipei neighborhood, but when she's stuck with a load of useless gifts from the opening celebration, her younger sister Josie turns the café into a burgeoning bartering business. There, even a soulful song (by Japanese singer Atari Kosuke in a cameo) is a tradable commodity. One day, a traveler brings in 35 soaps from around the world with a story for each of them, awakening Doris' imagination about the outside world that she has never seen.
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Time to Open a Coffee Shop
Beyond Salvage...
What a horrible and pretentious movie. The narrative with a woman's voice is absolutely terrible. The dialog, the acting and the screenplay are all nothing but a joke. I never understood why all the Taiwanese screenplay writers, directors and the actors never grew out of the immaturity and pretentiousness. Most of the Taiwanese movies are either trapped in the adolescent retrospection, puppy love, memories of the elementary, junior high and high school days, or the laughable delinquent gangster genre crap. I can't even find an actor who's really talented enough to play a role like what a realistic person should behave. The forever poorly patched and unnaturally manufactured dialog simply made all the actors to act worse and exaggeratedly awkward. No matter how they tried to make a barely watchable movie, it always gave you an impression of immature and more feminine feeling. There's no way to keep me from impatience to most of the Taiwanese movies whatsoever. No, I am not particularly discriminating against the Taiwanese movies, but a viewer who watches all kinds of movies from so many different countries on a daily basis, but why Taiwanese movies always let me down and made me lose patience every time and decided to quit within 5 to 10 minutes; 15 to 20 minutes was a miracle, albeit in the middle or approaching the end.