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Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
One of the Greatest Chinese films moreCast
(Credited cast) | Lingyu Ruan | ... | The 'Goddess' (as Ruan Ling-Yu) |
| Tian Jian | ||
| Zhizhi Zhang | ... | The 'Boss' (as Zhang Zhizhi) |
| Keng Li | (as Li Keng) |
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Germany:85 min | USA:73 min (2008 TCM print)Country:
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Shanghai, the thirties. A young single mother is forced to prostitute herself in order to feed and educate her child. Running from the police she ends up getting involved with a gangster, who exploits her by threatening the child. Their life together becomes hell; their neighbours do not allow their own children to play with the son of a morally corrupted woman and the school's dean receives several letters demanding that he should expel him.
SHEN NU is one of the greatest Chinese films(not just silent films).It is very realistic,and the performances are very good.It is the city of Shanghai itself that comes out as the villain in the film, rather than the gangster played by actor Zhang Zhizhi, mainly through several inserts, pictures of modernity, depicting a sleepless city and tall buildings in the night and bright neon lights. At one point in the film, Ruan looks at the Shanghai night and, before her son, expresses the wish to run from the city (and its society) that does not allow her to lead a normal life.
It should not be difficult to deduce that the tragedies in her personal life greatly contributed to her performances relating to characters that were also victims of the society in which they lived. It is a pity that Ruan came to reveal herself much more emotionally fragile than her characters and that we were not able to see and hear her in sound cinema.