This film is laden with so much regret. The grandmother, in her silence and stillness, forces her family into diverging reflections. The immediate family is so abstracted in the actions they take, but the grandmother remains a container for their secrets, disappointments, dreams, and sacrifices. In Yang Yang's refusal to speak to her on her deathbed and his explanation that 'anything (he) could tell (her) (she) must already know' he bestows on her a power, an omniscience that can only…
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There were so many moments where I felt the urge to pause and linger on an image, a sentence, a fact.
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