SIFF #6 Real-life coming of age movie. What stands out here is the subtle push and pull dynamics between modern values and conservative traditions. On one hand we have characters saying the correct things, like we parents shouldn't interfere what our children want, or there seemingly is direct intervention from School teachers and folks from People's Committee aiming to protect children's rights, which makes you think that tradition, as it stands, maybe are merely performative traditions in this day and age. Until at the very end when the brutal sequence unfolds in front of our eyes, the camera and the parents of Di, who almost decides to do nothing.
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如卡神评《王老五的奥斯卡》那句经典的“我被击倒了的言论一样我被片中哥哥疯魔的演技所击倒被故事无与伦比的厚度击倒被影片关于人性细致入微的刻画击倒“An epic spanning a halfcentury of modern Chinese history, and a melodrama about life backstage at the famed Peking Opera.