Love And Duty (戀愛與義務) [excerpt]
A tantalizing peek at this recently discovered and restored epic. Still searching for the full version that has been shown in film festivals. In this second pairing of popular heartthrobs Ruan Ling-Yu and Jin Yan (the first, 'Wild Flowers', is considered lost), Ruan Ling-Yu plays a young girl in love, who is forced by her father into a loveless marriage. Years later, she's bad-tempered and so alienated from life that she is oblivious of the crowd near her screaming when her son nearly drowns in a lake. When she realizes that her son's rescuer is her former lover (Jin Yan) who still pines for her, she begins to come alive again. But this is Ruan Ling-Yu, so you just know that sunny smile won't last...