One Hundred and Fifty Years of Life
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Country/Region:
Mainland China
Release Year: 2016
Release Year: 2016
Story:
In Southern Beijing, a father and his son who relied on each other were struggling to live, and two daughters wanted to seize their father's retirement expenses for their own personal gain. And misfortunes came one after another. The 60-year-old demented son was deliberately abandoned by his brother-in-law, and the young tenant went astray for so-called love. Life was getting tougher. In the constant struggles, the 90-year-old father felt hard to bear the burden of life, and wanted to end his life with pesticides with his son. The film ends here and leaves the suspense, in which the cold-bloodedness and fetters of kinship are vividly displayed. The feeling of powerlessness goes straight to the hearts through screen. Two people’s lifetime adding up to 150 years come to an abrupt end.
In Southern Beijing, a father and his son who relied on each other were struggling to live, and two daughters wanted to seize their father's retirement expenses for their own personal gain. And misfortunes came one after another. The 60-year-old demented son was deliberately abandoned by his brother-in-law, and the young tenant went astray for so-called love. Life was getting tougher. In the constant struggles, the 90-year-old father felt hard to bear the burden of life, and wanted to end his life with pesticides with his son. The film ends here and leaves the suspense, in which the cold-bloodedness and fetters of kinship are vividly displayed. The feeling of powerlessness goes straight to the hearts through screen. Two people’s lifetime adding up to 150 years come to an abrupt end.
Casts & Crews:
Liu Yu
Directors
Runtime:
94
minutes
Language:
Subtitles:
Chinese
iMDB:
tt6386600
Festivals & Awards:
2016 San Sebastian International Film Festival,Spain 2016Cairo International Film Festival , Egypt 2017 Gothenburg International Film Festival, Sweden
2016 San Sebastian International Film Festival,Spain 2016Cairo International Film Festival , Egypt 2017 Gothenburg International Film Festival, Sweden
Tags:
#Beijing
#Family
#Kinship
Director‘s Statement:
Family affection is an eternal theme, which cannot be avoided or abandoned. The father in vulnerable age takes care of the mentally retarded son, which makes people feel the strongest fatherly love in the world. China's social security system still has a long way to go. And on this rugged road, how many people like the father and son in the film are struggling against their fate most tenaciously, and even if there is only the last bit of strength left, they must persist and live humbly and bravely. Facing the reality, the darkest side of human nature is also displayed incisively and vividly. When the son-in-law of the old father left the mentally retarded son of latter in the wilderness, people felt the cruelty and coldness of fate. The world needs warmth, and people need sincerity. How to make choices on the road of life is confronted with the severest test. It tells the hardships faced by the father and son with almost documentary lens language, revealing the dignity in plain life.
Casts & Crews
Liu Yu
Director
