Sunday Short Theatre – Lonely Blue Night

This week’s Sunday Short Theatre, emotional distance plays a big part in Johnson Cheng’s Lonely Blue Night.

Sending your child away especially to another country, when they return off course things are going to be different. There will be many many reasons for parents for making hard decisions, many we may not understand. Cheng’s 15 minute short drama Lonely Blue Night portrays a Chinese family’s and the mothers decision to send her daughter to stay with an American couple. Reunited in California and off course the meeting highlights the awkwardness , the distance between the two grown. A lonely blue night for both.

Cheng’s film is visually gorgeous which set the tone, the discomfort of the characters. The mother doesn’t take well to their daughter has an English name Lisa, you can also feel her pain. Diana Lin plays the mother and she’s fantastic in the film who captures a lot of unspoken pain.

Sadly these stories aren’t isolated and Cheng was inspired by many who knows about in San Gabriel area in California. The Dim Sum restaurant, the film set in which he grew up eating at regularly. A personal touch with a lot of fond memories and cultural misunderstandings.

A portrait of a Chinese family in which the consequences of a mother’s decision to leave her daughter in the care of an American homestay family are slowly unearthed when they reunite on one lonely blue night.

Source: Short Of The Week