The Goddess (1934)
Written and directed
by Wu Yonggang this ilm stars Ruan Lingyu and Zhang Zhizhi. A single
mother who works as a prostitute struggles to escape the clutches of
an abusive pimp.
The plot of this film
does a good job of showing the struggles of a sex worker but I am not
sure it ever does more than that. Whilst the story is sympathetic to
the plight of the protagonist it never really offers any potential
answers or reasons for why society acts this way, only how it acts. I
enjoyed the film but I would not say it has the style of a Naruse
film of which there are many on the same subject.
3/5
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