At the surface, Tian Xie’s “Promise” and Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” seem similar. Both films depict a child’s relationship with a pig, and both of these human-porcine bonds are threatened by powerful outside forces. But on closer look, “Promise” highlights something much more serious and complex: the harsh realities of poverty and abandonment. “Promise”–one of 12 finalists in TheWrap’s 2017 ShortList Film Festival, presented with support from IMAX–follows a young boy in China’s rural Yunnan province. The boy’s parents leave him to fend for himself while they go to the city to look for work,...
- 8/10/2017
- by Ashley Eady
- The Wrap
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