2014 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL IN COMPETITION --- 闖入者 CHUANG RU ZHE (RED AMNESIA), DIRECTED BY 王小帥 WANG XIAO-SHUAI (1966-), CHINA, 2014, 115. This film the last episode of Trilogy of Cultural Revolution (文化大革命三部曲), it follows SHANGHAI DREAMS (青紅 QING HONG) in 2005 and 11 FLOWERS (我 11 WO 11) in 2011. The film has the great performance from veteran actress 呂中 LU ZHONG (1940-). Deng is a stubborn retired widow who spends her days caring about her two grown up sons and her elderly mother, despite her family efforts to stop her. But her daily routine starts derailing when she keeps receiving anonymous calls. What’s happening to her? Who could have anything against her? Even her husband’s ghost doesn’t seem to know... Director’s Statement After my father’s death, my 70-year-old mother, who lives alone, still wants to take care of me and her grandchildren. Her life made me reflect on Chinese people’s way of life. Her generation has lost their selfconsciousness. They don’t know who they are and how life can be. Born around 1949, after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, they have been educated and then have gone through all the different political movements our country went through. From then till now, they have been completely brainwashed and became insensible. That’s the reason of the emptiness of their existence. The old lady of Chuangru zhe is intruding in other people’s lives, while our generation and our future generations might continue this intrusion in other people’s life. We are all carrying a stamp, in a Chinese way. We can’t escape from this. Chuangru zhe is about us today, forgetting those damages we suffered along the way. If situation remains unchanged, we will continue to be intruded, or intruding the lives of others, because we’ve been intruded deeply in the thought and consciousness.
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