The first thing you see in Tigertail is wind blowing through rice fields. It's a simple image, a memory from a man in his autumn years.
It's melancholy and gorgeous, but also speaks to a potential obstacle. Wind is something that's felt, not really seen. There is a lot of emotion tucked away in Tigertail, but it is at such an intentional remove that it's somewhat stunted by the time it comes to the screen.
There's a good chance you'll watch Alan Yang's generational story and by the end think, "Yes, this is touching, but shouldn't I be sobbing like an infant right now?" The narrator is Pin-Jui (Tzi Ma), a tight-lipped, unknowable, but surely very sad man.
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