Aftershock

Aftershock

23 seconds, 32 years.

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Release Date

7/22/2010

Runtime

135 mins

Genres

Overview

Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.

Status

Released

Original Language

Chinese

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$100,297,064

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An emotionally devastating exploration of a mother's impossible choice and its rippling consequences across three decades. This is a film about what we sacrifice and what survives in us despite it.

Mood

MournfulWistfulBittersweetDefiant

Themes

FamilyGriefIdentityLoveRedemption

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDesaturated

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Child endangerment

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