For my movie review this week, I'm looking at the Chinese family drama "Ocean Heaven," which opened this year's Shanghai International Film Festival.
Fighting in movies for almost 30 years, action hero Jet Li takes a big turn by playing a disease-ridden father who desperately looks for a shelter for his autistic son, Da Fu (Wen Zhang), before he dies.
The movie is said to be based on a true story, although it leaves us wondering whether Da Fu comes to a good end.
Indeed, the future of a 21-year-old autism patient in China is an uncertainty because of the country's unstable social security system. Maybe that explains why the film's kindhearted director makes every character in the movie a model citizen after finding that the system doesn't provide much help.

“李连杰终究还是我们大陆人”，这是《海洋天堂》给人留下的最深刻印象。
尽管有全国武术冠军的辉煌，尽管有香港功夫片“宗师专业户”的盛誉，尽管不幸沾染了美国B级动作片的一缕邪性，李连杰的本色，终究还是个普普通通的大陆男人。一个男人如何从阳光灿烂的少林小正太长成满面风霜喋喋不休的大叔，背后的艰辛恐怕只有他自己知道，可是当他穿上一身工装顶着一头花白的短发跟老板商量：“我想请两天假……”的时候，你会觉得这位大叔辉煌得吓人的履历仿佛都是幻觉。他从来没有离开过，这么多年来他一直就在这里，伴着我们一起变老。
同样是放低身段，同样是文艺路线，成龙就不会给我们这种感觉。大哥再怎么扮衰，香港市民的狡黠和明朗是藏不住的，而杰仔，只要他愿意，大陆小老百姓普遍未老先衰的那个“衰”字随时可以洋溢出四肢百骸——没法子，大陆人过日子难啊！人家是人定胜天，我们是天定胜人，不扮海龟，能长命百岁吗？
影片的故事很老套，讲一个得了晚期肝癌的父亲如何努力给患自闭症的儿子找一个好归宿，让人忍不住联想起《星星知我心》一类的苦情剧

【海洋天堂】情感真挚 可惜是类型化处理
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