Scars of Time: Guilt and Forgiveness in Wang Xiaoshuai's 'So Long, My Son'

A sprawling narrative that flits between depictions of memory and the modern day, So Long, My Son captures the inevitable march of the time and the changes and pains it brings families. Through this expansive film, Wang Xiaoshuai also offers a conduit for grasping such developments in the context of an ever-modernising China – highlighting the complicated tie between citizens and state, writes Dave Crewe.

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Asian cinema, Lee Chatametikool, parenting, autocracy, authoritarianism, one child policy, grief, abortion, economic growth, modernity, urban, rural.