Underneath They Live by Night is a moving, somber story of hopeless young love. There’s no attempt at sugarcoating a happy ending, and yarn moves towards its inevitable, tragic climax without compromise. All we did is for love.
Tenderly tackled in this poetic film is the theme of new versus old - the dueling emotions, the ambitions of an adolescence to metamorphosize versus his very roots that tug at his heartstrings and stop him from flying high and away, a widowed mother's grief and hopelessness versus her muted acquiescence - all captured with rawness, humanism, and an understated elegance. #BJIFF @UME双井