After Aftershock

watched Aftershock with May at Sunnybank AMC, the only cinema shows this movie.
as many HK frds highly recommended, and as being a Chinese, i should watch it anyway.
昨天問朋友有沒有興趣看, 反被問及為何如此想看.... 真過份!
without knowing the director, without knowing the whole storyline... only watched the trailer... why not? need not to be care too much, many ppl recommended... i actually seldom watch Chinese movies... but this one is really attractive.
know too much abt the storyline is not good either, i don't want to predict the scenes.
so if u want to watch the movie later, don't read the comments below.............

without describe too much abt the earthquake and the rescue since it's not the main theme but the prelude. since this is not a disaster film like 柴犬奇蹟物語 (A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies) or 2012, Knowing, The Day the earth stood still.... those story abt the end of the world...
yea, coz it's actually really abt "Aftershock".... so i think the English name is more telling the story but 唐山大地震 would be more vibrating for sure. 
i quite like the fonts of  唐山大地震...
just as the poster "Her survival was just the beginning."

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Sacrifice
當兩個只能活一個, 你救哪一個? it's really hard to choose... both are your children, save whose life? in my point of view, the mum save the little brother not only because his gender, but he's keep calling his mum for saving his life while the sister couldn't say anything but crashing the stone. the younger ones always got privilege... that's the normal (: as i'm the youngest child.... kekekke...
but their mum sacrifice her entire life, her fortune to fulfill her belief... their ghost couldn't get home if they moved too far away. 

Persimmon -- promise
that's the most touching part i think.
b4 the earthquake, there was a scene that only one persimmon left, the mum given it to the little brother, the daughter complainted her mum favouritism... the mum promised to buy her the next day.... at that night, the accident made her couldn't complete her promised.
after 32 years, their reunion scene... her mum prepared a few persimmons for her... no matter how old she is... she still remember that after all these years......... as she had promised... really meant it, not just a lie to a child. 


Pregnant scene
the daughter got pregnant with her bf, while her bf asked her to do an induced abortion....
such an irresponsible guy... this made me think of my frd who also got such experience while she chose the same thing with the leading lady...  give birth to baby and left the guy.
the most funny thing is when the adpoted father slapped the bf, an audience was too excited and yelled "打得好!!" in mandarin... really rofl XD

Coherence
it links up with the Sichuan earthquake at the end of the story...
another story begins to lead u have a little flashback. back to the scene that the mum made the choice...

Director
since the director Xiaogang Feng is familiar with comedy... so humourous scene are between. not crying scene for the whole movie...
14X mins... long movie but not boring at all.

cry or not, so depends... May didn't cry, i did. i'm emotional... but not only me, i seen ppl's crying eyes after Aftershock...



and i suddenly missing my mum...