Movie Digest
“My Second Hometown” is a collection of seven stories directed by seven different directors based on real life experiences. Each story represents a different kind of poverty alleviation that people go through, for example, insurance poverty alleviation, green poverty alleviation, rural commerce poverty alleviation, employment poverty alleviation, etc. This spreads the spirit and values of poverty alleviation using the modern movies.
The Feel Good Part
It conveys a good message and increases our awareness of the things that people are going through using good stories. It is very similar to reality as it is a true story.
The Disappointing Factor
It felt like this is made to advertise big companies instead of conveying a good message. There are a lot of advertisements and the stories are not shown in a touching way.
In-Depth Analysis
These are adapted from the true stories on from the front lines of poverty alleviation. It has seven stories each representing a different type of poverty alleviation. The first story “Entrust” is about children who love basketball but had their dreams shattered due to lack of resources to play basketball. Continued by “Guarding the bridge” about rebuilding the old bridge in a village to save the people from floods. The third story “Inherited” is about children who couldn’t attend school due to poverty. Followed by, “Small Goals” about an epidemic that forced life in a village to press the pause button. “Sisters” is about two siblings who sacrificed their dreams to survive poverty. “Bloom” is about an independent director who suffered a lot of setbacks in life and decides to film one last time about his hometown. “Cloud” is a story about “cloud production” that is to help the left-behind children find their families using cloud technology. Al these stories teach us various things and bring awareness of the situation of the society.
Star Power
All seven directors did a great job using their own styles to film and the overall acting is also good. They travelled to the locations where all these stories took place in order to film in a realistic manner.
Overall Opinion
Overall, it is worth watching and helps us realise the things that people go through due to lack of resources.
