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The film is too suppressed to many users, I know. It has the record of 'the most winners in a single Golden Horse Film Award', the most important film award of Chinese movies, partly because of some political factors.
Mike Garcia
heartbreaking film about the Chinese cultural revolution in the 70's, when young girls were separated from their families and sent away to the remote countryside for manual labors ( A DUMB TRADITION THAT WAS PART OF THE Chinese CULTURAL REVOLUTION).The main character of this film is a 15 year old girl named XIU XIU, who is a victim of the circumstances, someone who relies in the hope of a false promise that will be the path for her destruction. She is sent to live with a man named Lao Jin, who will do everything he can to satisfy her ,he will be witness of the brutality of the corruption of a rotten system, feeling powerless of can do anything for save her.A beautiful film that progresses until turn into a tale of brutality.
ZivileZab
Eastern people are very strange. For my European mind. But my post-sovietic mind can understand the absurd of communism. People are going where the system sends them and think they are doing something very appreciable for others. Well, mostly things like it are useful for those in highest chairs.A little girl goes to the countryside to help people. She's so innocent and her plaits are a symbol for it. When she's sent to prairies to live with horses breeder Lao Jin for six months she's so shy and afraid he can do something bad to her. But he can't long time ago his manhood has been sliced off.After the time she had to go back she's still with Lao in the fields. But she wants go home. And suddenly a man comes and says he can help her. And gives her an apple (symbolic, right?). The next time he comes he wants something from her. And his friends wants the same. They say that's the only one way to go home. Yeah, right...Lao Jin sees and understands everything, but Xiu doesn't want to hear anything from him. But when surprisingly" she becomes pregnant Lao is only one who helps her. And in the end the only one who frees her. When she's back to her innocence and plaits.It's a sad story. And very eastern. Gee, this really could have happened! Stupid system and dickbrained men.
md7-1
This movie has a really nice pace of editing among the many beautiful images presented by Joan Chen. You should take note that the pace isn't very fast and the story presents it self very linear. Without making clichés. For me it wasn't disturbing, I even embraced it.I watched this movie because the band Xiu Xiu recommended it. And I knew that this wasn't going to be happy-happy-joy-joy-experience.But the movie really grabbed me after wards, knowing that this isn't likely for many movies I regard this movie as a masterpiece. Strong Cinematography, good acting, moving story, nice soundtrack (not only the music), fine pace of editing.Be good to your self and step in to this experience.
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