Unlike my colleagues in NYFCO (New York Film Critics Online) who
review movies for a living and have to put up with the latest dreck
out of Hollywood, I can pick and choose what I watch and write about.
Even not having movies like Neil Labute's racist garbage to use as a
benchmark, I am confident that there is nothing more worth seeing
than "Taking Father Home," a Chinese movie made without governmental
approval for less $5000.
The plot revolves around 17 year old Xu Yun's search for his father,
who abandoned his impoverished rural Sichuan family six years earlier
for a better life on his own as a construction worker in the city of
Zigong. In other words, the movie describes the current reality for
hundreds of millions of Chinese families.
Xu Yun is played by a nonprofessional actor named Xu Yun. His
character is not "dramatized" for the conventional expectations of
most movie-goers but instead is presented as a sullen, inexpressive
youth on a single-minded mission. It is clear that filial devotion
means much less to him than simply tracking down somebody in the
style of a bounty hunter, with pretty much the same goal: to get his
family's hands on some income.
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/taking-father-home/
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