So Long, My Son
2019 · 185 min · Director: Xiaoshuai Wang, Wang Xiaoshuai
Show plot summary (may contain spoilers)
'We're waiting to grow old'. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun's bitter realization about their lives. They were once a happy family - until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his 'foreign' parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country's upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering turbo-capitalism of the present day. Told in sweeping tableaux, it makes visible the deep scars that lie beneath the surface of an ostensibly unbroken success story.
Emotional fingerprint
So Long, My Son (2019) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Sadness 38%, Melancholy 22%, Empathy 18%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Sadness38%
- Melancholy22%
- Empathy18%
- Nostalgia12%
- Hope10%
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Why it feels this way
The strongest emotional signals are Sadness, Melancholy, Empathy. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.
Is it worth watching?
Consider this title if you are looking for Sadness, Melancholy and Empathy. Its IMDb rating of 7.7/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 73/100.
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Emotional journey
- Sadness
- Empathy
- Tension
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No dominant emotion
Dominant emotion: Tension
Dominant emotion: Empathy
Dominant emotion: Sadness
Dominant emotion: Joy
Dominant emotion: Nostalgia
Dominant emotion
| % | Approximate minute | Dominant emotion | Overall intensity | Sadness | Empathy | Tension |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 % | ≈ 5′ | Tension | 75 % | 57 % | 57 % | 73 % |
| 7.5 % | ≈ 14′ | Empathy | 70 % | 58 % | 59 % | 60 % |
| 12.5 % | ≈ 23′ | Sadness | 70 % | 58 % | 59 % | 50 % |
| 17.5 % | ≈ 32′ | Joy | 64 % | 40 % | 46 % | 39 % |
| 22.5 % | ≈ 42′ | Nostalgia | 63 % | 32 % | 43 % | 39 % |
| 27.5 % | ≈ 51′ | Tension | 74 % | 48 % | 57 % | 57 % |
| 32.5 % | ≈ 60′ | Sadness | 74 % | 59 % | 64 % | 59 % |
| 37.5 % | ≈ 69′ | Sadness | 65 % | 55 % | 55 % | 54 % |
| 42.5 % | ≈ 79′ | Tension | 71 % | 60 % | 60 % | 64 % |
| 47.5 % | ≈ 88′ | Sadness | 84 % | 78 % | 75 % | 71 % |
| 52.5 % | ≈ 97′ | Sadness | 84 % | 80 % | 78 % | 70 % |
| 57.5 % | ≈ 106′ | Sadness | 74 % | 68 % | 70 % | 54 % |
| 62.5 % | ≈ 116′ | Nostalgia | 69 % | 61 % | 64 % | 44 % |
| 67.5 % | ≈ 125′ | Sadness | 74 % | 68 % | 66 % | 55 % |
| 72.5 % | ≈ 134′ | Sadness | 79 % | 70 % | 69 % | 51 % |
| 77.5 % | ≈ 143′ | Nostalgia | 83 % | 70 % | 71 % | 35 % |
| 82.5 % | ≈ 153′ | Sadness | 89 % | 80 % | 83 % | 41 % |
| 87.5 % | ≈ 162′ | Sadness | 90 % | 78 % | 84 % | 45 % |
| 92.5 % | ≈ 171′ | Joy | 86 % | 50 % | 73 % | 21 % |
| 97.5 % | ≈ 180′ | Joy | 87 % | 28 % | 68 % | 5 % |
Man in a hole
Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.
Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.
Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.
Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.
Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.
Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.
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Cast
Shen Moli
Li Haiyan
Gao Meiyu
Shen Yingming
Liu Xing
Zhang Xinjian
Shen Moli in youth
Young Shen Hao
Details
- Directed by
- Xiaoshuai Wang, Wang Xiaoshuai
- Written by
- Xiaoshuai Wang, Mei Ah, Wang Xiaoshuai
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2019
- Runtime
- 185 min
- Country
- China
- Genres
- Drama
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Sadness
- Data updated
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