Study On The Old Figure Of Ann Hui’s Later Works

Ann Hui is an important female director of Chinese film industry, whose movies always focus on the vulnerable groups and the social characters, and silently concerned about their daily lives and emotions with her usual calm lens, running through rich humanistic care. Working in the film industry for many years, for the audience director Ann Hui created a lot of movie masterpiece where her shapes a series of elderly characters, which not only enrich the elderly characters of movie art but also focus on elderly aging problem and reflect social problems in a profound level. In the background of population elderly aging, it is meaningful on both theoretical and practical to research elderly characters in Ann Hui’s film works.This Thesis, which focuses on elderly characters in Ann Hui’s film works, specifically analyzes artistic exploration background, elderly characters building and artistic features of her works, while the Thesis make horizontal comparison between Ann Hui’s film and other elderly theme movies to make us understand theme implication and a unique artistic characteristics of her film more clearly and more profoundly.The thesis preface deriving from the award-winning of the Ann Hui’s elderly movie "A Simple Life" concisely explain the necessity and the research purpose of analyzing the elderly image in Ann Hui’s film. The first chapter combings her artistic exploration background among Ann Hui’s cultural origin, geographical background and identity recognition. The second chapter analyzes elderly characters in Ann Hui later movie in detail, whose elderly roles are mainly divided into three types, and describes the real survival status and spiritual outlook of these elderly roles. The third chapter points out that social problems which reflected from Ann Hui elderly theme movies include pension problems and death problems. The forth chapter analyzes rich humanistic care, calm documentary style and unique women sense in artistic features of Ann Hui’s elderly theme movie. The fifth chapter points out that there are similarities on creative background and art features between Ann Hui’s film and other elderly theme movies. The sixth chapter analyzes differences between Ann Hui’s film and others and point out that the elderly characters sex feature is more sharper and reflect elderly aging problems more profoundly, which could achieve the integration of commercial elements and art films and a win-win situation.This Thesis analyzes Ann Hui’s elderly characters and explore its unique artistic style and aesthetic significance by systematically researching Ann Hui’s elderly characters, aiming to provide useful inspiration for older video creation and contribute my own a humble for elderly movie research.