China began loosening its one-child policy in 2015 until finally, in 2021, it abolished all restrictions on the number of children a family could have.
Young Chinese filmmakers are beginning to grapple with the fallout of those prior decades in new fiction films that demonstrate how the Chinese family unit has been irreversibly transformed.
Writer and Director Lin Jianjie, making his feature debut, eases us into his inquiry by using genre conventions – namely the ‘outsider intruding a family’ framework, deployed in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Teorema” and Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn.
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