Friday, January 13, 2012

Chinese Classical Film Reivews (2) The Spring River Flows East (I)


A lot of Chinese classical films focus on the conflict life of working class people and upper class people. Described as an epic of Chinese film history, the film tells a tribulation of a family during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Zhongliang is the elder brother of the family, who attends the medic of the soldier after the war exploding to Shanghai. However, he has to leave his family in the countryside, including his wife Sufen and their new born son. His brother attends the army as well and marries a comrade girl, and keeps fighting for the motherland.

Unlike his brother, Zhongliang arrives in Hankou (inland China) and encounters a rich girl, Lizhen, who is fond of him for a long time. In order to survive in a severe war period, Zhongliang needs a rich person’s help. Therefore, Lizhen seems to be his only choice, but he has to conceal the fact that he has married and has a son. Falling in love with Lizhen, Zhongliang becomes the secretary of Lizhen’s godfather, a boss of several factories and they thus get married immediately.

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