The postmodern life of my aunt

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又名: Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo

导演: 许鞍华主演: 周润发 / 斯琴高娃 / 赵薇 / 卢燕
上映年度: 2007

语言: 普通话


制片国家/地区: 中国


Chinese actress Siqin Gaowa plays a woman who has deeply hurt her husband and daughter by choosing to leave them and move to Shanghai.


The moves picks up at a time when she has begun to feel lonely. Her nephew comes to Shanghai for a visit and --one thing leads to another--this woman with a college degree is scammed out of her life savings. Things get worse when she falls down some stairs and has to call the very family she has rejected. She had been humbled and changed.


I guess this kind of story is common and ordinary in China, because of the effect of history. Some talent people could not make best use of their abilities but mingle into the life they would not want to live. They try their best to break away from it. That is why aunt in the movie returned Shanghai without hesitate. However, life in Shanghai is not as what she thought. The most problem is loneliness. When Zhou Ruifa, a cheater in the movie, came up in her life, she fell in love with him. What is worse, all of her savings were lost due to her trust of Zhou.


The reality is cruel. Without money, aunt fell down from the stairs and broken her leg. The only help she could seek was always her family. Her daughter came to take care of her, although she hated her mother very much. The daughter showed her mother what she had rarely felt over the years: love. Later, they returned their original home in a small city. Aunt became wordless, and led the simple life. The life in Shanghai seemed to be a shining dream. All of them has gone!

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