Shen nu The Goddess Yonggang Wu [videorecording] =

By:

Yonggang Wu

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Material type: Text

TextSummary language: Chinese, English Original language: Chinese Subtitle language: Chinese, English Publication details: China Lianhua Film Company 1934Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 73 min.) sound, b&w.; 4 3/4 inOther title:

The Goddess

Uniform titles:

The Goddess

LOC classification:

PN1997 .S546 1934

Summary: From case cover: Ruan Ling-yu plays a prostitute who uses her earnings to support and educate her son. The title of the film "The Goddess" was the Shanghai way of describing a woman who sells her body. The heroine is forced to enter this oldest of professions as it is the only way for her and her child to survive and to provide fro his education. One night she encounters a gangster as she flees from the police. he forces her to work for him, giving up her earnings at the end of each night. Yet she is able to hide some of her money in order to continue payments to her son's school. The school board discovers her occupation, and the boy is expelled despite the pleading of the sympathetic headmaster. When the gangster steals her money, the prostitute after a brief struggle kills him. She is sent to prison for 12 years. The final scene in jail depicts the headmaster promising to raise her son, forestalling his son being sent to an orphanage. Raun's acting in the last sequence displays her complicated response to the news of her child's good fortune and the kindness of the headmaster. Ruan, as in so many of her films, is the symbol of China's suffering. Only as a prostitute could she support her child and give him an education.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-D: DVD Cabinet D	PN1997 .S546 1934	Available		001228

From case cover:
Ruan Ling-yu plays a prostitute who uses her earnings to support and educate her son. The title of the film "The Goddess" was the Shanghai way of describing a woman who sells her body. The heroine is forced to enter this oldest of professions as it is the only way for her and her child to survive and to provide fro his education. One night she encounters a gangster as she flees from the police. he forces her to work for him, giving up her earnings at the end of each night. Yet she is able to hide some of her money in order to continue payments to her son's school. The school board discovers her occupation, and the boy is expelled despite the pleading of the sympathetic headmaster. When the gangster steals her money, the prostitute after a brief struggle kills him. She is sent to prison for 12 years.
The final scene in jail depicts the headmaster promising to raise her son, forestalling his son being sent to an orphanage. Raun's acting in the last sequence displays her complicated response to the news of her child's good fortune and the kindness of the headmaster. Ruan, as in so many of her films, is the symbol of China's suffering. Only as a prostitute could she support her child and give him an education.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; PAL; Regions 1-6,8; 4:3 fullscreen.

Silent Film. Chinese or English subtitles.

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