The Only Sons
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Country/Region:
Mainland China
Release Year: 2003
Release Year: 2003
Story:
With his brother awaiting his sentence, young peasant A Shui and his wife need to raise the bribe money to save him from the death cell. They decide to sell their unborn child. They chance upon a missionary couple who have gone through emotional and moral suffering, and still bear their sence of gulit and hope for saving grace. With the help of school principle Cheung, they manage to sell their child and raise the money. However, they are too late for A Chong’s sentence. A Shui is totally broken and his wife drowns herself. The child, however, is returned by the police. At the end, the missionary couple take the child away, leaving A Shui and his village, to be swallowed up by the falling night.
With his brother awaiting his sentence, young peasant A Shui and his wife need to raise the bribe money to save him from the death cell. They decide to sell their unborn child. They chance upon a missionary couple who have gone through emotional and moral suffering, and still bear their sence of gulit and hope for saving grace. With the help of school principle Cheung, they manage to sell their child and raise the money. However, they are too late for A Chong’s sentence. A Shui is totally broken and his wife drowns herself. The child, however, is returned by the police. At the end, the missionary couple take the child away, leaving A Shui and his village, to be swallowed up by the falling night.
Casts & Crews:
GAN Xiao'er
Directors
Runtime:
100
minutes
Language:
Cantonese
Subtitles:
Chinese, English
Festivals & Awards:
2004 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Hong Kong 2003 Busan International Film Festival, Korea
2004 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Hong Kong 2003 Busan International Film Festival, Korea
Tags:
#Christianity, #Chinese farmers, #AIDS
Director‘s Statement:
Where lies my compassion for peasant brethren AShui?
Our location producer in Baishuizhai, A Fang, is a common peasant. On a night boat trip, on the deck, he said something that is not “supposed” to come from a peasant.
A Fang: I feel, spiritually, there is no hope in store for me. It seams that this is all there is. This is my hole life.
At that moment, I felt a smart pain. There is something even more unendurable than the most intense physical, sensual pain. I put my thought down in the director’s note for the cast and crew:
I do not feel A Shui and us belong to two different worlds. In fact, we are of the same lot, only that we are sellers of different commodities. Or, we just happen to load a more comfortable life.
I dare not loftily claim this is to be a work about a peasant’s spiritual world. I, however, do have this in mind. Whether I accomplished it or not.
Rendering judgment belongs to God.
Our location producer in Baishuizhai, A Fang, is a common peasant. On a night boat trip, on the deck, he said something that is not “supposed” to come from a peasant.
A Fang: I feel, spiritually, there is no hope in store for me. It seams that this is all there is. This is my hole life.
At that moment, I felt a smart pain. There is something even more unendurable than the most intense physical, sensual pain. I put my thought down in the director’s note for the cast and crew:
I do not feel A Shui and us belong to two different worlds. In fact, we are of the same lot, only that we are sellers of different commodities. Or, we just happen to load a more comfortable life.
I dare not loftily claim this is to be a work about a peasant’s spiritual world. I, however, do have this in mind. Whether I accomplished it or not.
Rendering judgment belongs to God.
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GAN Xiao'er
Director
