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Title: Beautiful and stunning
Review: The road Home and Xiu Xiu, the sent down girl, are the 2 movies that manage to make me cry. Being a fan of Chinese and Japanese cinema, The road home is another masterpiece collection from Zhang yimou. Its a basic story about relationship, parent, love, stubborness, tradition and belief. The movie is in both black and white during the present and in colour during the flashback , where the bulk of the main story is. The cinematography is visually stunning depicting the forest and the steppes of northern China. The acting is superb esp. from Zhang yiyi and the rest of the cast are admirable.The love story is touching...hard to find nowadays. But what really touches me the most is when the aging mother recalls her youth and her stubborness in old age which reminds me so much of my own mother that i cried. The scene of the long, funeral march in the snowstorm is sad, haunting and touching. Musical score is ethereal.
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