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So i just saw this Taiwanese sports film.  It's a true story about a high school baseball team in the 1930's.  We are told they have never a won a game and in one year competed at the finals of the country's top high school baseball teams.  It has the makings of what a sports movie is. Values of hard-work, determination, team, sacrifice are all present. The movie's biggest concept comes from a papaya tree that bears the biggest and the sweetest fruit. Overcoming adversity. It's a good story. It's interesting to know that race also was an issue in some parts of Asia during certain periods of time. In this time, growing up, It was never an issue. I learned that we are not so different after all. We may be from different countries or different time periods. But we are all capable of cooperation and of competitive spirit.

How about settling taxes over a cricket match? That's the premise.  Bollywood films are interesting. You can build a stereotype over them with lots of dances or a whole lot more dances. This one's a very long film; around 3 and half hours long. Minus the dances, you could probably fit it into 2 hours. So i'm saying it now, it felt a bit long. The story's well made. At first, I just can't believe the whole base of the story is a settlement of taxes over a cricket match. At some point, that's comical. Now, i don't know if there's ever been a real deal of things over a game. There probably was, but who knows. I just had a thought of that Sandler Film, The Longest Yard. They almost have the same backbone, except in the longest yard, they play football. Back to the story, it's basically one linear progression of events with a long the way a touch of a love story. A captain raises the tax twice. This angers the farmers. They g...