Robinson is a well off, middle-aged man selling real estate in the urban jungle of Taipei. He deals with giant-budget projects and meets with all kinds of business tycoons. But one thing he is unable to cope with is a settled home and relationship in Taipei.
He sells people houses, as well as a sense of home and happiness, but he owns no houses and lives by himself in a hotel room.
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Robinson is surrounded by four women. Hsiang-chi is his co-worker. They like to share childhood memories and dreams with each other.
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Kuei-mei is another co-worker who always has men troubles. Robinson likes to comfort her and politely flirts with her when she's down.
His girlfriend Feng-Shu sometimes visits him at the hotel. But he often stands her up out of pure carelessness. And there is Sin-jie, the girl working on the reception desk at the hotel. She greets and chats with Robinson everyday and advises Robinson to call his girlfriend.
Coincidentally, what happens in the film Robinson's Crusoe (
But during the shooting of the film, the two agreed to break up, exactly mirroring what happens in the film toward the end.
As for director Lin Cheng-sheng, who wrote the script of Robinson, he admitted the film was a reflection on his mid-life crisis. After finishing editing with his long-term co-worker and wife Ke Shu-ching (
When Chang and Dai both appeared at Tuesday's press conference for Robinson's Crusoe, they were immediately surrounded by dozens of reporters, inquiring after their love lives. Chang and Dai only reluctantly agreed to take a photo together.
"Please focus on the film not their personal lives. The fact that I'm willing to talk about my marriage doesn't mean that my actors should talk about their own lives as well," said Lin Cheng-sheng, trying to rescue the two embarrassed actors from the media chase.
With the release of Robinson's Crusoe this weekend, Lin said that he hoped the reception it gets is as good as that at Cannes, France, in May, when the French media were effusive and compared it favorably with Edward Yang's (楊德昌) YiYi (
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