The film is based on the historical events of the great drought in Henan in 1942, when millions of people left their homes and went out to flee the famine. It is narrated in two clues: one is about the people on the road to escape, mainly the two families of the old owner Fan Dianyuan and the tenant Xialu. The core; the other is the Kuomintang government, whose indifference and corruption, their contempt for the people pushed and deepened the disaster. The theme of the film is "people", the most numerous people, they are the root of everything, and they silently determine the direction of history like the earth and the sea. At the end of the film, the old boss who has lost all his relatives, meets a little girl who has lost all his relatives. The old boss recognizes her as a granddaughter, and they become relatives - when the old boss takes the little girl's hand and goes along the mountain road to his hometown At the time of departure, the driving force of this nation's endless life has been most powerfully explained. "1942" is a warm movie. This movie is not pessimistic, but believes in the warmth of human nature, giving people the strength to move forward, sad but not sad.
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