11/22/2023 0 Comments Jing boran russian![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Da was only two, he probably won’t remember his home or family and may not even know he is adopted. Though many people are sympathetic towards him and touched by his unrelenting search for his son, there are others that Zekuan meets who, meaning well, ask him if perhaps it’s not better just to let it go and move on. Turning to modern technology, he’s hooked up with a group of concerned citizens who are always on the look out for missing kids and the gangs that maybe handling them. Zekuan has spent the last 15 years travelling all over China chasing every lead desperately trying to find him but drawing a blank at every turn. Lei Zekuan’s (Andy Lau Tak-wah) son Da was taken from his home at two years old. Peng Sanyuan’s debut film Lost and Love (失孤, Shī Gū) does not dwell on the causes of China’s child abduction problem but on the pain and suffering it inflicts on parent and child alike. In any case, though child trafficking is an open secret, very few abducted children are ever traced and reunited with their parents. Some of the children are sold on to orphanages working with various organisations who facilitate international adoptions which fetch a high price, but the major demand comes from depopulated areas of rural China who, suffering under the One Child Policy, need more children to help them on the farm or perhaps because their birth children were female and they need a male heir. Many of these children are simply abducted from wherever they happen to be and handed over to brokers who are often working with organised crime. Because of a series of interconnected social factors, the trafficking of children has become a widespread problem in contemporary China. ![]()
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