neglected old people. but still this is a film that manages to find beauty in the most dismal of situations a. director who both committed suicide last year at just twenty nine this debut film is his legacy fellow filmmakers say it s less a critique of today s china than an artistic statement in the past like everybody in the army of the same family. you know and great stars like everybody together but that stuff we now in modern family situation. in china are compared to you know maybe fifty years ago but i think that s also i. if you want to talk about this stuff and sure you know if you go ologists or something that wouldn t be the trend of the whole war right now i think it s also up in the us. there is no public funding available to filmmakers in china they have to rely on the