The Sixth People’s Hospital is one of the biggest in Shanghai. Its corridors are filled with medical staff, patients and families whose lives have been turned upside-down. A series of interconnecting stories paint a picture of China as it is today, where hypermodernism meets cultural tradition.
Set inside the Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital in China, the documentary features an old man devotedly caring for his half-conscious wife, a father who lost his wife in a car accident but sings every day for his daughter in intensive care, a wife worried about her husband’s difficult spine surgery, and many others. Patients and their families are all shabby “people” and are at a major turning point in their respective lives. They have to choose between the worst option and the alternative, or they have to bet on a hopeless tomorrow. The film shows the emotions of joy and sorrow, fear and anger, and hope and frustration as they are, without exaggerating them. Thanks to such efforts, the real-life drama in that hospital unfolds slowly but resonates completely in the heart of the audience. [MOON Seok]
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