几 年前就知道这部电影，不过一直没机会看，最近看了感觉不错，属于那种让你去体会的类型，导演甘小二，基督徒，他的“第七封印电影工作坊”好像又拍了一步也 是与基督文明有关的电影，这样一共出了两部。“第七封印”来自《圣经》的“启示录”，好像记得他说计划要拍七部来着，希望甘小二能完成！
附：好像03年的《艺术世界》有对甘小二的采访
另附：一老外的观后感
Saying lots with little
Irina Tanansescu, The Peak
Shan Qing Shui Xiu (The Only Sons)
Dir: Gao Xiao'er
China
The film Shan Qing Shui Xiu, directed by Gan Xiao'er, is a small jewel in the oeuvre of films at the 22nd annual Vancouver International Film Festival. It depicts a Chinese family in a remote village struggling with poverty and with the fact that the wife is pregnant with their second child. Due to China's one-child rule, they cannot keep this second child or else they will suffer severe financial and political penalties. Therefore, they try to find ways to hide the baby, or even consider sending him off to live with an American family.
Initially, the film seemed to develop slowly, but it has a modest and simple handle on its story that is actually very touching - by the end, I was in tears. The images are all shot on digital video and, at first, the film appears to resemble a TV show. But it is indeed more complex.
The unique aspect about this film is that it depicts China not from an urban point of view, but from the traditional lifestyle in the remote village area nestled around the outskirts of the big cities. But the film shows how that way of life is somehow forgotten. A feeling of nostalgia is evoked, for in that lost past lays a small jewel, such as the immense green landscape the director presents and its close relationship to humanity. The feeling is powerful through the seemingly simple use of form in the film. Really, though, the fixed camera angles and the use of non-professional actors appropriately brings a crude humanness to the film.
The director answered a few questions from us at the end, and gladly I had a chance to tell him how great an effect his filmmaking can achieve with so little.
