What does the season ending of Love in a Foreign Land mean?

I. Introduction

The season of love in a foreign land (also known as the season of love in a foreign land) is a drama film directed by Hong Kong director Clara Law and released on 1990, starring Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai and Hayley Man.

This story tells the hard and sad life of China people who emigrated overseas in 1980s. The year before the film was released, it coincided with the political turmoil in the mainland of China. The atmosphere of the whole film is depressing and sad, but the content is full of characteristics of the times and satirizes social reality. The film also uses the pingtan singing method of Minnan dialect.

Tony Leung Ka Fai, the leading actor, won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, and Maggie Cheung won the special prize of the jury of Turin International Film Festival.

Second, the plot

1988 Spring in Guangdong. Li Hong applied to the United States many times, but she refused every time on the grounds of being too beautiful or single. So she married Zhou Nansheng, a teacher, and finally got a visa after giving birth.

When she first arrived in the United States, she kept writing letters hoping to go home, and Nansheng advised her to stick to it. In the last letter, she asked Nansheng to divorce immediately.

The following spring, Nansheng sneaked into new york to find Li Hong. Although he has suffered so much, he has been looking for him. On the way, I met Jane, a China girl of 15 years old. Out of sympathy, she helped Nansheng go to Li Hong by car.

In the process of searching, they learned that Li Hong lived in an underground cave in the United States for a year and was almost raped. She married an old shopkeeper for a green card. As a result, his money was taken away and his life was extremely hard.