Contemporary Chinese and A Beautiful Life

Contemporary Chinese and A Beautiful Life

The movie A Beautiful Life is a very good example of contemporary chinese films. The film is directed by Wai-Keung Lau. He has made a lot of movies and is famous for his cinematography and directing of movies such as Chungking Express, Infernal Affairs, Infernal Affairs II, Infernal Affairs: End Inferno 3 and many more. The two main characters are Qi Shu and Ye Liu. Qi Shu is famous for her roles in The Transporter, Legend of the Fist: Return of Chen Zhen, and A Beautiful Life to name a few. Ye Liu is famous for his roles in A Beautiful Life, City of Life of Death, and Curse of the Golden Flower. Wai-Keung Lau, Qi Shu, and Ye Liu work so well together that they make the movie amazing. All three combined make the movie extremely moving. The ability to move the audience in such an emotional way is something that is done and done well in contemporary Chinese movies. In the movie there are a lot of difficult thing and emotional connections that move the viewer. It seems that contemporary Chinese movies are distinct in their ability and success of portraying real emotions and difficult/controversial topics. This was not always the case but has been steadily going in that direction. It is easy to see it especially more prominent beginning in the 6th generation. They continue to do documentaries on these subjects. This produces the empowering emotional movies that they keep making time and time again. It is hard for there to be an exact example of these emotions and specific movies because there are so many films and many different topics in which they do movies on.