Almost missed a good movie. It is definitely a non-blockbuster film, with limited budget and no-star-studded cast, yet it won my heart (and tears) with its poinant realism, sometimes camouflaged in well-arranged humorous spicies that only Chinese can understand.
The film is entitled: The End of Year (Yi Nian Dao Tou). In press reports, it was billed the first Chinese movie that sets the plot around the annual massive homebound passenger flood during the Spring Festival period. Yet I'd rather take it as, behind the forever theme of "going home" for the holiday, a true panorama of the current Chinese society, all its joys, tears and helplessnesses. Thank God it's not all a hopeless picture.
Just look at how many viewer comments at Douban. Most of them saluted such a small-budget domestic production instead of those big-budget and big-cast counterparts. I believe there is a strong demand in the domestic audience for something that truly reflects THE life they are experiencing.
At the end of the movie, Xu Wei's Blue Lotus (Lan Lian Hua) floated up with the scenes of what we Chinese are all familiar with. Tears came to my eyes. I miss home.
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