Motherly love In 2000, the Chinese director Sun Zhou filmed a soul drama called Beautiful Mother. For the main female role, the director takes the actress, with whom he has already worked and will work in the future - Gong Li.
The film is a touching and strong story that takes the viewer to life. This is the story of mother and son. The heroine Sun Liing is divorced and brings up her son alone. The boy is deaf and mute, so he cannot lead a normal life. Sun deprives himself of everything, or rather his career, personal life, and devotes himself to his son, who so badly needs his mother and her love.
The movie is soulful, but it will not be to everyone’s taste. It was filmed in an atmosphere more like European cinema. There is not a single note of falsehood, everything looks convincing and believable. Play actors clean, especially pleased with the duet of the main characters Gong Li and the little boy. The young actor was very touching.
As for Gong Li, this is one of her deepest roles. Gunn Lee is a wonderful actress with a capital letter. Having conquered me once in the cult film “Memoirs of a geisha”, I became willing to always watch films with her participation. This actress has many diverse and complex roles. She acts as if she is living her every role. In this film, her character was a fragile and small woman, but she had no right to be weak, because she had a difficult child on her shoulders. We see her beating and doing everything to make her son happy and his life seem normal. The character and character of the actress succeeded.
Maybe the movie in the middle was a little long, but overall it impressed me and I think it was very positive. On the pure, inspiring play of the actors, everything is held. Not everyone will appreciate and feel this drama, this is a movie for moviegoers who know a lot about soulful cinema, or for fans of cute Gong Li. Thank you.
7 out of 10