Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: Spiros Bousbouras Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.past-films,soc.culture.china Subject: "So long my son" Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:56:23 -0000 (UTC) Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:56:23 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="3118360"; posting-host="9H7U5kayiTdk7VIdYU44Rw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:ZkPGSTWDC5KBrwFTVPTET1AYoiXwMjxsgKwjGy+qfgI= X-Organisation: Weyland-Yutani X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-Server-Commands: nowebcancel Bytes: 2464 Lines: 26 "So long my son" is a Chinese movie from 2019. Its central characters are 3 couples , especially 1 of them. The film follows their lives through several decades and the central theme is the impact on their lives by 2 public policies : predominantly the "one child policy" and , less so , the liberalisation of the Chinese economy which allowed factories which weren't doing well to lay off workers. The above summary may sound cold and possibly makes the movie seem like a documentary but the movie is anything but. It is full of drama , poignant moments and the occasional touch of humour. The duration is 3 hours 5 minutes (according to IMDB anyway , my DVD is 2 hours 57 minutes for some reason) but I never felt bored and I have watched it twice. One complaint I've seen on IMDB is that the movie jumps back and forth in time as it tells its story. This it does but for me it never caused a problem because there are always visual cues that a time jump has taken place and the approximate time period : clothes , technology , backgrounds , locations. You need to pay attention and keep track of the Chinese names (which may be harder for a westerner). As long as you do this , the jumps in time won't be a problem. Speaking of IMDB , I feel some regret than none of the reviews there seem to be written by Chinese , I would be especially interested to know how they feel about the movie. There were a few things about the plot which weren't explained well enough but I didn't really mind.