As interesting as the movie is, in the screening I could observe the public stirring in the seats about the last stage waiting for an. Wang Xiaoshuai's So Long, My Son is so epic and ambitious it renders most other movies puny by comparison. Spanning three decades, Beijing Bicycle director Wang tries to encapsulate the seismic changes in Chinese society but parlay them through the prism of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
For So Long, My Son, which the director co-wrote with Ah Mei, and which unfolds over the course of three decades, the inspiration is drawn from closer to home. China's recent history - the unforgiving one-child policy; the stinging tail end of the cultural revolution; the seismic shifts in worker status and. My review of So Long My Son, a Chinese movie directed by Wang Xiaoshou, starring Yong Mei and Wang Jingchun, who both won awards at the Berlinale for their.
Film Review: 'So Long, My Son'. A deeply moving, generations-spanning drama exploring the long-term effect of China's one-child policy on a Sixth Generation Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai 's utterly wrenching, decades-spanning intimate epic "So Long, My Son" has few enough such. So Long, My Son, whose original title in Mandarin is Di Jiu Tian Chang, is an easily accessible, beautifully-wrought work of cinema whose universal human story of heartbreak and tragedy So Long, My Son - The pain imposed by China's One-Child Policy explored in Wang Xiaoshuai's masterpiece. So Long, My Son's overarching theme, however, is undoubtedly family. Stripped bare, this picture follows a family through an ambitious narrative structure that spans almost five decades. MOVIES. 'So Long, My Son' ('Di Jiu Tian Chang'): Film Review
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So Long, My Son is a film of frankness. It discusses complicated, personal topics without hesitation. Ultimately it becomes an indictment of China's one child policy, revealed subtly by showing how a lifetime of pain could have been avoided.
Wang Xiaoshuai returns to form with this story of how a couple in China, and their friends, cope with the death of their only son; despite its sombre narrative, the film may be Ai Liya, Xu Cheng, Li Jingjing, Yong Mei, Wang Jingchun and Qi Xi in a still from So Long, My Son, directed by Wang Xiaoshuai. At the festival, the film won the two main acting awards. But "So Long, My Son" is, thematically if not formally, his most ambitious project to date, and not just because it is his longest. At three-hours-plus, it may seem like an ungainly vessel, but it needs the heft to remain seaworthy across the swells and ebbs of more than three decades of Chinese history.