HOW LONG IS THE ROAD

       "How Long is the Road", the last part of director Tang Shiang-Chu's trilogy of coming home, continued the main theme of coming home. This time the director focus on a group of Ami Taiwanese soldiers who were brought to the civil war in China after the Kuomintang took over Taiwan. In 1949, these Taiwanese soldiers either died in war or were forced to stay in China and barred from returning homes in Taiwan. This kind of political segregation not only happened to Taiwanese soldiers, but also to Chinese soldiers. Director Tang's second part of the trilogy "How High is the Mountain" depicted his own father, a veteran who was brought to Taiwan by the Kuomintang, forced to stay in Taiwan and barred from returning home in Hunan. This absurdity of war sent a group of innocent people into the battlefield away from homes.