So Long

Review of Chinese film So Long, My Son: Is China’s Own Mother India

Starring Wang Jingchun (as Liu Yaojun),Yong Mei (as Wang Liyun) Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai Rating: *****(5 stars) This 3-hour long Chinese epic is a staggering achievement in every sense. After I finished watching it I sat in supreme silence thinking about life, mortality, continuity, lineage, marital harmony, friendship and at the end of it all, the futility of it all. How do I describe So, Long My Friend? At its most visible level, it is the story of a couple, played with self-effacing velocity by Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei, who lose their only son in a frea | Click Here...