Review of Forever Young (2018) by Andrew D — 19 Jul 2018

Very thought provoking and beautifully filmed with exceptional attention to detail. While the movie may have a patriotic flavor which may be distasteful to some, it can use this method which is more accessible to the target audience, to bravely explore sensitive issues that are likely rarely touched on in Chinese movies.

The four stories from different eras are cleverly connected and, for those who like historical movies, the film uses the love story cleverly as a vehicle to portray the excesses of the cultural revolution and a society gone mad on witch hunts.

The fact that many really were killed in similar fashion to Zhang ziyi's 'trial' makes the story all the more disturbing.