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Quiet Twenty Two, showing the power of strength

2017-08-16 11:44:03

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- You might find it hard to see such a silent film that has no background music and has very few dialogues, but it has become one blockbuster movie recently and has been recommended by many Chinese artists.

August 14 is the world “Comfort Women” day, and the documentary film Twenty Two, directed by Guo Ke, was officially released. On the afternoon of that day, Guo Ke came to Chongqing to promote the documentary and was interviewed. He said that he did not anticipate that it would attract so much attention. In the view of Guo Ke, the film was lucky to be supported by actress Zhang Xinyi, director Feng Xiaogang and others.

What kind of movie of the Twenty Two is? Why is it so popular? Let us have a brief introduction.

22 survivors of comfort women

The Twenty Two tells the stories of the survivors of the Japanese arm’s “comfort women” system. Guo Ke and the film crew spent 4 years travelling to 29 regions in five provinces in China to complete the filming.

The objects of the Twenty Two were elderly comfort women over 90 years old. The film title “22” represents the number of survivors who came out as comfort women in China when Guo Ke produced the film in 2014.

After watching the film, you will find that there is no background music or commentary and just a very few dialogues. The past experiences of the elderly don’t take up a lot time, because the film mainly focuses on their present life.

It was decided by Guo Ke at the beginning, because these old women don’t need such auxiliary things to express. Their calmness even was beyond his imagination. “I also struggled for a while. They were too calm and even a little ‘boring’, but then I thought that was their real life, and I just want to show such ‘boring’ to the public.”

Guo Ke gave up commercial film and chose to make the documentary of little economic value. He said he didn’t mean to render the sorrow or consume the feelings of survivors, but to respect the history and reality. He also wants to tell the public that we should remember our compatriots’ sufferings in the past.

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Editor:Jiang Yiwei