So here I am watching the most realistically painful emotional movie I think I've ever watched and constantly contemplating if I should just stop watching. Due to the level of pain being witnessed and the level of emotion I'm experiencing just watching. The movie I'm referring to is called 'Aftershock', released in 2010 by director Xiaogang Feng is based on a very real devastating earthquake that shakes a Chinese city in a way that leaves invisible and some visible scars. The worst kind of scars are the ones we bear on our hearts. The ones people don't see coming or don't even know exists til they stubble on them. The problem with these types of scars is not the scaring but the behaviors that results. In this movie a mother has to chose between her twin boy and daughter who should live. In her struggle to decide she almost looses the chance to save either. Then she essentially loses the one child she didn't choose who ends up living long after the mother has gone in search of aide for the child she did choose. Only the child she didn't choose is unable to forgive her mothers choice and for 32years never goes back or even wants to look back. There are more scenes in this movie even more emotional and thought provoking. What I did take away from the movie is simply you can not know loss until you've experienced it but even more important we are limited by our thoughts.
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