"You are not alone"

**Joined:** 21 Jan 2005, 22:18 **Posts:** 1006

The last couple of times I've gone to the cinema, there've been trailers before it showing a white girl wandering around Taipei, doing stuff like visiting night markets and reading at dawn. The tag line at the end is "You are not alone".

It doesn't seem to be actually selling anything, just ... reassuring foreigners.

I'm curious as to why. Have there been more of us than usual getting off the plane and going crazy in the first week?

**Posted:** 19 Jul 2006, 14:21

Brendon wrote:

The last couple of times I've gone to the cinema, there've been trailers before it showing a white girl wandering around Taipei, doing stuff like visiting night markets and reading at dawn. The tag line at the end is "You are not alone".

It doesn't seem to be actually selling anything, just ... reassuring foreigners.

I'm curious as to why. Have there been more of us than usual getting off the plane and going crazy in the first week?

Is the trailer in Chinese? (apart from the "you are not alone")?

**Posted:** 19 Jul 2006, 14:22

Brendon wrote:

The last couple of times I've gone to the cinema, there've been trailers before it showing a white girl wandering around Taipei, doing stuff like visiting night markets and reading at dawn. The tag line at the end is "You are not alone".

It doesn't seem to be actually selling anything, just ... reassuring foreigners.

I'm curious as to why. Have there been more of us than usual getting off the plane and going crazy in the first week?

Hello, Brendon.

Are you NEW to Forumosa???!!!

That lady is a Forumosan. I hope she posts in this thread.

**Posted:** 19 Jul 2006, 14:26

The ad shows the girl wandering aimlessly looking lost and scared, and only happy when she is with other foreigners.

I believe the message is 'Foreigners, you are not alone as long as you are with other foreigners - so stay with your own kind and don't talk to us'. That's what I get. The fact that it's all in Chinese makes it even more obvious.

**Posted:** 19 Jul 2006, 14:29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_GPMEDhSk

I understood all the English in it... :idunno:

**Posted:** 19 Jul 2006, 14:34

Hmm... thanks for the link.

Nice ad. I'm curious about the reason for making it. Really.

And isn't **** sexy when she shoves that squid down her cake-hole? Grrr! :wink:

**Posted:** 19 Jul 2006, 14:42

... but not as sexy as Sandman.

Ach!!

**Posted:** 19 Jul 2006, 14:44

They should do that ad, but with me getting up before dawn, getting on my bike and driving to the top of a gorgeous mtn, reaching the summit at sun up and being met by 50 Taiwanese hikers and me screaming

"I'm NEVER ALONE!!!!"

**Posted:** 19 Jul 2006, 14:45

darn backpackers....Naruwan!...touching your heart!

cute video

**Posted:** 19 Jul 2006, 14:58

Fortigurn wrote:

The ad shows the girl wandering aimlessly looking lost and scared, and only happy when she is with other foreigners.

I believe the message is 'Foreigners, you are not alone as long as you are with other foreigners - so stay with your own kind and don't talk to us'. That's what I get. The fact that it's all in Chinese makes it even more obvious.

I didn't think she looked scared. I didn't think it was telling us to stick to our own kind. I think it was saying, 'Taiwan is a pretty cool place, and anyone can get along here. You may even meet people from your own culture too.'

But... It also didn't seem to imply that the girl was working here... so maybe its a tourism advert. In which case... its a pretty dumb thing to show it to a bunch of people who are already here. They should be showing it in other countries, surely. Like, in the Gabon or something...

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