The Little House Under the Moon
- 1986
- 1h 40m
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Touching film that's good for both children and adults
Although this movie is a children's movie, it is equally good for adults. The movie explores a subject that is rarely touched in the Chinese society: discrimination against the reformed ex-cons.
A reformed ex-con must earn the trust back from the society once he was released, and even more difficult, he must earn his three children's trust back because they blame him for the death of their mother and the discrimination they suffered due to the crime he committed.
Such movie would never be able to pass the governmental censorship in era of the Cultural Revolution, which still cast a dark shadow in the Chinese movie industry despite the fact the movie was made a decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution, after all, it was 1980's, the reform in China was still in its infancy.
To avoid the possible banning, the film crew carefully and wisely chose to express the theme in the eyes of children: how things developed in the eyes of children and how children felt about events happening around them. This subtle approach via the mask of a children's movie result in sounding success: not only it was a success for children's film, it was well liked by adults as well. (Not mentioning the fact that it had successfully passed the governmental censorship first time, without change anything, like many other Chinese movies would have to face).
A reformed ex-con must earn the trust back from the society once he was released, and even more difficult, he must earn his three children's trust back because they blame him for the death of their mother and the discrimination they suffered due to the crime he committed.
Such movie would never be able to pass the governmental censorship in era of the Cultural Revolution, which still cast a dark shadow in the Chinese movie industry despite the fact the movie was made a decade after the end of the Cultural Revolution, after all, it was 1980's, the reform in China was still in its infancy.
To avoid the possible banning, the film crew carefully and wisely chose to express the theme in the eyes of children: how things developed in the eyes of children and how children felt about events happening around them. This subtle approach via the mask of a children's movie result in sounding success: not only it was a success for children's film, it was well liked by adults as well. (Not mentioning the fact that it had successfully passed the governmental censorship first time, without change anything, like many other Chinese movies would have to face).
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- zzmale
- Feb 18, 2004
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