If only consider the ordinary situation

Dahlia 2022-04-22 07:01:45

The erotic part is indeed a bit too much, and it must be very controversial, so let's put those clips aside, and consider the rest of the plot as ordinary movies.
I only saw a few clips before, and I thought the heroine was Vietnamese, but to be honest, it is very similar, so it is difficult to say that she is beautiful, at least her roommate Helen in the film compares it a little bleakly.
The combination of a white girl and a Chinese man was considered unacceptable in the society of the 1920s. Today, nearly a hundred years later, China has experienced a complete turmoil and reshuffle. The traditional society has long been broken and subverted, and the aesthetics of the Chinese people are completely Westernization, while the European concept of contempt for Chinese men still persists.
In fact, I think the most outstanding character in the film is the mother who was crushed by the tragic fate. She completely gave up her self-esteem and sense of morality. At the same time, she was despicable and deplorable, and at the same time insisted on doting her children to the point of being heart-wrenching, especially the one who stood in the rain and sent the eldest son back to China. lens.

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Extended Reading
  • Stan 2022-03-22 09:02:30

    Leung Ka Fai shines no matter what he plays!

  • Rosie 2022-03-23 09:02:50

    Leung Ka Fai thought he was ugly when I first saw him many years ago... I was blind then

The Lover quotes

  • [last lines]

    Narrator: Years after the war, after the marriages, the children, the divorces, the books, he had come to Paris with his wife. He had phoned her. He was intimidated; his voice trembled, and with the trembling it had found the accent of China again. He knew she'd begun writing books. He had also heard about the younger brother's death. He had been sad for her. And then he had no more to tell her. And then he told her - he had told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, that he would never stop loving her, that he would love her until his death.

  • Narrator: "Now and then I go back to the house in Sadek. To the horror of the house in Sadek. It's an unbearable place. It's close to death. A place of violence of pain of despair, of dishonour... But it's in this family's dryness in it's incredible harshness that I am the most deeply assured in myself. In the deepest of my essential certainties, all common history of ruin and shame, of love and hate is in my flesh."