Great Wall, My Love

5/5/2014

The thorny problem of China-Taiwan reunification beats mildly below the surface of love-left-behind heartwarmer Great Wall My Love 追愛 (2011), ironically co-produced by the same Mainland company (Jiuzhou Audio-Video Publishing Corporation 九洲音像出版公司) that made Wang Quanan's drama referencing the same theme, Apart Together 團圓 (2010). Both films start with an aging man travelling back from Taiwan to China to meet the woman he deserted in the late 1940s when the Nationalists fled to Taiwan. But whereas in Wang's movie they meet and chew over the past, in Emily LIU 劉怡明's the search is taken up by the daughter when the man suddenly dies of a heart attack. As the daughter pairs with a young Mainlander as her guide, her father's history becomes a problem inherited by the younger generation — one a y