Review of 'Being Ordinary': A Gentle, Complicit Taiwanese Family Melodrama

A high-speed car crash leaves a university student in a wheelchair for life, but this is merely the starting point of 'Being Ordinary,' a sensitive, quietly paced film with little interest in the clichéd disability drama. Instead, it offers a broad portrait of how the young man's family is affected by the accident.

A high-speed car accident leaves a college student in a wheelchair for good, but that's merely the starting point of the narrative in "Normalness," a sensitive, gently moving film that has little interest in the stereotype of a disability drama — instead offering a sweeping picture of how the young man's family is affected by the young man's accident.