Name: Ru yi
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Suying Huang, Rentang Li, Tianqian Tan

Need to know some traditional Chinese cultural practice first

The title of this movie can be loosely translated as: Fortune.

In order to fully understand this movie, we need to know some traditional Chinese cultural practice first.  In ancient Chinese culture, it is a tradition to carry a jewelry made of jade with you for good luck.  Each type of jade jewelry has its own particular shape, style, size, and accordingly, its own meaning.  For example, some are for having healthy babies, some are for education (passing exams), some are for getting good jobs, and some are for accumulating wealth, and some for love/romance.

The jade jewelry carried by protagonist in this movie has the symbolic meaning in that they are called Fortune, representing the hope of those who carry them are fortunate to have a good spouse, but as the harsh reality of the actual life, such hope often does not materialize.

Mandarin-language cinema across Mainland China, Taiwan, and Singapore explores historical reflection, cultural identity, and personal sacrifice, often expressed through poetic visuals and sweeping narratives. In Mainland China, this takes the form of allegory and large-scale epics that reflect on national history. Taiwan emphasizes intimate modernist realism, generational change, and the search for identity. Singapore contributes stories of migration, multiculturalism, and the negotiation of tradition in a globalized city.

The drama genre is a broad category that features stories portraying human experiences, emotions, conflicts, and relationships in a realistic and emotionally impactful way. Dramas delve into the complexities of human life, often exploring themes of love, loss, morality, societal issues, personal growth, with the aim to evoke an emotional response from the audience by presenting relatable and thought-provoking stories.

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In autumn 1961, young teacher Chen Yu is appointed professor in a high school in Beijing. He makes friend with Shi Yihai, the modest caretaker of the high school. The old lonely man draws his curiosity as well as his respect for his humanist opinions which are different from other people, and which he does not hide: one day during a meeting about the ancient society's miseries, he dares say that a priest was one of his masters and that he was a good man, and at another occasion, in the middle of the cultural revolution, he covered a dead man shot by the Red Guard with a white cloth. He brings soup to former colleagues condemned to hard labour. He acts according to his heart and convictions, refusing to obey the guideline of the party.

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