Shower or bath, shower or bath, shower or bath… That is the question: how to prevent the evaporation of your cultural traditions?
In this second film by Zhang Yang (his first was "Spicy Love Soup") we get a revealing look at China’s process of modernization. Where is the heart of a society or traditions that you should keep and how can you?
This time Da Ming (Fu Cun Xin) is a businessman from a bustling southern city who comes back to see his father, thinking he is ill due to an odd postcard from his halfwit younger brother. Once back in his hometown he starts to enjoy helping his father and brother run the family bathhouse. The men of the neighborhood have been coming here for about 50 years, and make up a big and caring family. When Dan Ming’s father Master Lui (Zhu Xu) faints, he realizes his father is not well and helps to run the bathhouse while his father recovers.
The acting is powerful and touches the emotional issues about keeping a family together and how to deal when your neighborhood is being "modernized"!

Reviewed by Eric Michel, FilmCities