Review | Film review: Lost and Love - Andy Lau plays a driven father
Fourteen years after his two-year-old son was abducted, Anhui farmer Lei Zekuan (Andy Lau Tak-wah) is still doggedly searching the length and breadth of China for him.
Starring: Andy Lau Tak-wah, Jing Boran
Director: Peng Sanyuan
Category: I (Putonghua)
Fourteen years after his two-year-old son was abducted, Anhui farmer Lei Zekuan (Andy Lau Tak-wah) is still doggedly searching the length and breadth of China for him.
Riding an old motorcycle to which he's attached large flags bearing his son's face and some information about him, the weather-beaten father refuses to give up on the search because, as he tells a sympathetic stranger, "Only when I'm on the road can I feel like I can face my conscience".
It's easy to feel for this character especially since the movie is reportedly based on a true story — there are tens of thousands of child abduction and trafficking cases on the mainland annually.
Where Lei's story stands out from that of other traumatised parents such as the distraught mother (Ni Jingjang) seen in the opening scenes, and also those in another film about child abduction, Peter Chan Ho-sun's is the duration of his search, even though the chance of success diminishes with every passing day.
