Love Never Ends!:A New Narrative Paradigm for Films about the Elderly
"Love Never Ends!"as the first feature length film on the subject of the elderly directed by young director Han Yan,takes the"tragicomedy"of the people at the bottom as the narrative focus,and explores the realistic issues on whether the elderly have the right to love and how to love.Among them,the narrative methods focused on the value of"elderly hero",the author's style,animal metaphors and others in the movie have broken through the previous narrative methods which place the elderly outside the mainstream culture and emphasize their psychological repression in China's films.On the contrary,director Han Yan's re-examination of the so-cial reality of"affection and love"faced by the elderly in this movie has an innovative reference value for the artistic aesthetics and narrative style of films on the theme of the elderly in the future.
Love Never Ends!tragicomedy narrativeelderly heroanimal metaphorelderly loveHan Yan