Blush (film)

Blush simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Hong fen is a 1995 Chinese film about the experience of two women during the Peoples Republic of Chinas campaign to reeducate prostitutes. Blush was directed by Li Shaohong and stars He Saifei, Wang Ji, and Wang Zhiwen. The film was a coproduction between Hong Kongs Ocean Film and Beijing Film Studio. The film is based on the eponymous novel by the writer Su Tong.

Blush takes place in the 1950s during a campaign by the new Communist government in China designed to reeducate prostitutes to become contributing members of society. Two such prostitutes, Xiaoe He Saifei and Qiuyi Wang Ji, have recently been sent to a reeducation camp by the Peoples Liberation Army. Rebelling against her new life of uniforms and forced reeducation, Qiuyi escapes and becomes a kept woman for Laopu Wang Zhiwen When Qiuyi becomes pregnant, she seeks refuge in a Buddhist temple but is cast out when the nuns discover her pregnancy soon after, the baby miscarries.Left in the training camp, Xiaoe undergoes her ideological reeducation and emerges from her ordeal as a factory worker. Detesting physical labor, she goes on to marry Laopu and has a child with him, forcing him to steal money from work. When Laopu is caught, he is sentenced to death, and Xiaoe abandons him and her child to remarry. As the film ends, XiaoEs child is adopted by Qiuyi, who had gone on to marry a simple old teahouse owner. ........

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