By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yonfan
Starring: Guangxuan Zhu | Joseph Chang | Kenneth Tsang | Terri Kwan | Wing Fan
Original language title: Lei wangzi
Country: taiwan
Year: 2009
Running time: 122
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1498834/reference
Thom says: “It happens in 1950s Taiwan, during the period known as White Terror, when an anti-Communist crusade swept the island and hysteria reigned. On one fall afternoon, two young sisters come back from class to find their home ransacked by military police force and their parents taken into custody and charged with being Communist spies. What happens to the sisters and how they change is intertwined with following a quartet of characters-the dashing air force officer father, his beautiful devoted wife, a mysterious scar-faced bureaucrat and a general’s glamorous wife. Their lives and loves intertwine until everything explodes in gloom. Very thought-provoking, challenging, & ultimately very sad. Rather fresh for me as I knew nothing about the history of the time. 4.5 cats“