Regarding the inheritance of Chinese families,
is the most concerned topic of pregnancy.
This movie is starring Fang Zhongxin, Qin Lan, Zhou Xiaoou and others. Screenwriter Wang Haiping saw the great maternal love of Chinese women for "Wenchuan orphans" during the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, coupled with his knowledge and understanding of surrogacy (third-party assisted reproduction), he combined the two to create the novel " Mother tongue.
At that time, Wang Haiping was working in Huairou District. In order to complete this work, he conducted interviews for about half a year based on the experiences of people around him, collected a lot of information, and found a prototype for the plot and details of the film.
Zhang Chi (played by Fang Zhongxin) and Fang Yun (played by Wang Pei) are both successful in their careers and their family conditions are quite superior. They are a typical middle-class family. The only flaw is that they have no children for many years, so they negotiated to find a replacement *pregnant.
Li Yan (Qin Lan) reached an agreement with Zhang Chi and his wife to become a surrogate mother (caring mother), and was involved in an uncontrollable emotional vortex. During her pregnancy, she gradually realized the feeling of being a mother, and her feelings for the fetus increased day by day. As a reporter, Fang Yun participated in the coverage of the disaster-stricken area during the Wenchuan earthquake. She felt maternal love was great and adopted an orphan. The film also staged a complex emotional entanglement between the three male and female protagonists.
When thou shalt be disposed to
set me light And place my
merit in the eye of scorn,
The movie touches on the most concerned topic of gestation in Chinese families, and directly hits the most vulnerable feelings in the human heart. Through the sensitive topic of "surrogacy",
explores the relationship between the sexes in modern cities, as well as the social propositions of love and responsibility, involving many elements such as marriage, family, ethics and morality. Although in terms of the subject matter, the phenomenon of "surrogacy" presented in the film is both sensitive and acute, the social reality revealed behind the story has attracted attention and thought. Although the
movie takes place in China, we all know that surrogacy is prohibited by law in China. Because of its illegality, the domestic surrogacy market is not regulated in all aspects and is carried out "underground". Once disputes arise, there may be a shortage of people and money.
is different from China, the United States is legal, and since 1981, there have been more than 30 years of market accumulation. American hospitals, surrogate mothers (caring mothers), egg donation volunteers, surrogate pregnancy lawyers, etc., all have specialized professional ethics and contract restrictions, and the entire process is protected by American law. The United States' legal and compliant surrogacy operation procedures and the high degree of public opinion acceptance are unmatched by other countries in the world.
