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Song of China, aka Filial Piety (Tianlun) dir. Fei Mu, Luo Mingyou sc. Zhong Shigen With Zheng Junli, Chen Yanyan, Lin Chuchu, Zhang Yi, Li Zhuozhuo Shanghai: Lianhua Film, 1935. |
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This film constitutes one of Lianhua's attempts to participate in the
New Life Movement which, among other things, sought to reestablish
traditional moral tenets. The film was one of the few Chinese productions
to be distributed in the USA during the 1930s. A wandering son returns home just before his father dies. The old man asks his son to extend his love for the family to the whole society. Several decades later, the son has himself become an old man who is disappointed with his children, particularly his son and daughter-in-law who indulge themselves in the pleasures of city life. He moves his family to the countryside and devotes himself to the building of an orphanage. But after his son and daughter-in-law leave him, his daughter also runs away. Many years later, the old man's grandson comes to live with him. His daughter, having been abandoned by her lover, also returns home. On his death bed, the old man admonishes his children in terms similar to those used by his father to admonish him years earlier: go beyond personal love and extend love to all mankind. The film ends with orphans proudly marching to their bright future. |
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