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Title: Coming Home (2014)
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| Cast overview: | |||
| Li Gong | ... | Feng Wanyu | |
| Daoming Chen | ... | Lu Yanshi | |
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Huiwen Zhang | ... | Dan Dan, the daughter |
| Tao Guo | ... | Officer Liu | |
| Ni Yan | ... | Officer Li | |
| Chun Li | ... | Cui Meifang | |
| Jia-yi Zhang | ... | Doctor Dai | |
| Peiqi Liu | ... | Officer Liu | |
| Jiali Ding | ... | Mr. Fang's wife | |
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Bai Qing Xin | ... | Officer Ballet School |
| Feng Zu | ... | Officer Deng | |
| Xiaoyi Chen | ... | Gong Suzhen | |
Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) and Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory. Written by Anonymous
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Coming Home is a great example of the way in which a movie can move you, play on your emotions, without being sentimental in a negative sense. Without being a tear-jerker. And without harsh images of struggle and war. But with excellent acting, small gestures and not so much words. This movie is all about empathy, first among the characters in the story depicted, but by consequence also among the audience, that is swept away and taken in by the sentiment.
This doesn't mean that the story is only about love and compassion. The Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) was far from being peaceful and compassionate. People were separated for years without any information, were forced to report any 'wrong' behavior that could 'harm' or 'threaten' the Communist Party. Coming Home shows how such an environment affects people at the individual, family level. People get damaged and family relations are shattered because of betrayal.
Coming Home succeeds in portraying the consequences of such a regime, by showing what humanity and compassion mean. And that is what makes it special, and refreshing in a world where it sometimes feels like these values are hard to find.