‘To Be Ordinary’ Review: A Compassionate, Even-Handed Taiwanese Family Melodrama

A high-speed traffic accident leaves a college student in a wheelchair for life, but that’s merely the starting point of the narrative in “ To Be Ordinary ,” a sensitive, slowly enveloping film with scant interest in disability-drama cliché — instead offering an expansive portrait of how the young man’s entire family is affected by his accident over the course of more than a decade. Spanning marital strife, economic upheaval, coming-of-age pains and moral crisis, Taiwanese writer-director Lee Yun Chan ‘s fourth feature — her first since 2010’s “Dancing Without You” — has a lot of story to…