At first glance, Zhai Yixiang’s “Mosaic Portrait” looks like it pursues the same semi-journalistic agenda as so much social-issue cinema: Xu Ying (Zhang Tongxi), a 14-year-old gir…
), a 14-year-old girl from a rural Chinese village, is discovered to be pregnant, and names one of her schoolteachers as the father. Ying’s father, Xu Guangjun — a frequently absent migrant worker — along with school authorities and visiting reporter Jia , who takes an interest in the case, attempt to piece together the truth of the situation.
But then Ying is brought slowly into focus: a solitary figure gaining definition as she emerges from the mists that swirl through this lonely village. She starts to own her story, but not because she represents anything as simple as a monolithic truth. Far from “solving the problem” of Ying’s rape , Zhai’s film dares to suggest the girl is not a problem to be solved at all — or if she is, it is one that no one has access to but herself.
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