"Away To Autumn Hate": A family affection that blends with milk and water
Huang Zihong
In this year's Spring Festival New Year film, "Hello, Li Huanying", which shows the mother-daughter relationship, has been laughing until the end, in fact, as early as 30 years ago, there was also such an excellent classic film that reflected the deep love between mother and daughter, which was written by the female director Hui Anhua, who won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film and Director Award, and is good at creating and portraying the charm of Hong Kong women's image.
Released in 1990, Xu Anhua's semi-autobiographical film "Ketu Qiu Hate", starring Maggie Cheung and Lu Xiaofen, tells the story of a mother and daughter from estrangement and contradiction to mutual understanding.
Xiao En (Maggie Cheung) has been estranged from her mother since she was a child, and when she grows up, she goes out to study. Due to his sister's marriage and immigration, Xiao'en returns to his long-lost home, but the conflict with his mother Aoi Zi (Lu Xiaofen) becomes more and more serious. It wasn't until Xiao'en decided to accompany her mother back to Japan to visit her family that she really began to understand her mother's past. It turned out that during the War of Resistance Against Japan, my mother went to puppet Manchukuo alone to join her brother, met her father (Li Zixiong), who was a Kuomintang document, and married and stayed in China after the war, but due to living habits and cultural differences, there were constant misunderstandings between her mother and her in-laws. Xiao En finally felt the loneliness and helplessness of her mother in a foreign country, and the mother and daughter achieved communication and understanding during the journey to visit relatives in Japan.
As a semi-autobiographical work of director Xu Anhua, Xu Anhua invested a lot of feelings and energy, reflecting the director's real experience in the early years of traveling to China, Japan and England, and the various cultures in the film are in stark contrast. The theme of the film falls on the delicate and complex emotions between mother and daughter, and the technique depicts the emotions and estrangement between mother and daughter from a feminine perspective, touching people's hearts from subtleties, and some fragments are like crying, which is touching.
The movie "Ketu Autumn Hate" is considered to be one of Xu Anhua's most touching and memorable films. The semi-autobiographical film depicts a daughter who slowly experiences the hardships of living in Hong Kong as a Japanese mother. In Hong Kong in the early 1990s, immigration and emigration pressure was very high, and the film's sense of alienation between different cultures, divided loyalty, and intergenerational understanding resonated with Hong Kong people at that time. Even now that more than 20 years have passed since Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the film is still an eternal classic in the hearts of returning Hong Kong immigrants.