How soon is too soon to feature a natural disaster in a film?
To start with, I haven't watched very far into this movie, but I have this question. My family experienced the 2008 earthquake, and when those scenes came up, we did not want to watch any more. And we didn't. Maybe if we had known about that part of the story in advance it would have been less off-putting. I know that there have been several very good films about the earthquake itself and its aftermath and its effects on survivors. It seems to me, though, that in this film it just serves to advance the plot. If that detail was included to make the film more China-friendly, I'm not sure it was effective. It certainly had a negative impact on my family.
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