The Mysterious Family

The Mysterious Family (Chinese: 神秘家族; also known as The Mysteries Family) is a 2017 Chinese suspense film written and directed by Park Yu-hwan. The film was inspired by a homicide case that occurred in Fujian, in 2014.[4][5] The film stars Ariel Lin, Jiang Wu, Kara Hui, Chen Xiao and Lan Cheng-lung.[6][7]

The Mysterious Family
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPark Yu-hwan
Written byPark Yu-hwan
Produced byPan Shuling
StarringAriel Lin
Jiang Wu
Kara Hui
Chen Xiao
Lan Cheng-lung
Production
company
Hengye Pictures
Distributed byHengye Pictures
Release date
  • April 21, 2017 (2017-04-21)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin
Box officeUS$2.2 million (China)[1][2]
NT$9.9 million (Taiwan)[3]

Premise

The Mysterious Family revolves around Miao Miao, a young woman whose life and mental state changes after surviving a brutal attack by a stranger. While trying to come to terms with her trauma, she has a presentiment of a tragic event, and has to race against time in an attempt to find the truth and change the course of events.

Cast
  • Ariel Lin as Miao Miao
  • Jiang Wu as Father
  • Kara Hui as Mother
  • Chen Xiao as Shu Shu
  • Lan Cheng-lung as The stranger
  • An Hu as Police officer
  • Chang Hsiu-yun as Granny
  • Jackson Lou as Police officer
  • Kuo Yao-ren as Police officer
  • Wang Dao-nan as Doctor
  • Ma Guo-bi as Lawyer
  • Mathilde Lin as Student
  • Chen Wan-hao as Taxi driver

Reception

The Straits Times's Boon Chan, in an article about subtitling in film, highlighted an "emotionally charged" scene in the film that caught his attention. When the mother was confronting her daughter's rapist, the English subtitles went, "You have the nuts to do it, why not have the balls to admit it?" when it should have been translated as "You had the guts to do it, why don't you have the guts to admit it?" He also remarked that "Mixing nuts and balls is clearly a case of a subtitler gone rogue."[8]

References
  1. "The Mysteries Family". boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  2. "神秘家族-票房收入-台灣偶像劇場". tw.dorama.info. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  3. "TFI-國家電影中心 Taiwan Film Institute - 電影票房資訊-每月票房公告". Archived from the original on 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
  4. "Film Review: 'The Mysterious Family' (Hong Kong, 2017) | East Winds Film Festival". eastwindsfilmfest.com. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  5. "This movie is based on one of China's worst homicide cases - Star2.com". star2.com. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  6. "神秘家族 The Mysterious Family - 電影". movie.gamme.com.tw. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  7. "Trailer: 'The Mysterious Family' - Far East Films". fareastfilms.com. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  8. "Subtitles should be seen, not 'heard'". 3 May 2017.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.