Spring Cactus (1999)

Original title

真情狂愛

Directed by

Huang Yu-shan

Genre

drama film

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A troubled young woman runs away from home and becomes a sex worker. Later she falls in love with a church social worker, struggles with addiction and crime, and eventually finds redemption through Buddhist teachings.

hopefulredemptivegroundedemotionalrawintrospectivelife-affirmingearnest

What happens

，1999年台灣劇情片，也是導演黃玉珊在拍攝一系列紀錄片後，所拍攝的劇情長片。本片由一名已往生的慈濟志工陳愛蘭的真人真事改編而成，並經過幾年的田野調查和反覆思索整理。 出自問題家庭的少女小蘭離家出走，成為性工作者，後來與教會社工明道戀愛和結婚。她的個性剛烈，曾經因為吸毒、傷人而坐牢，也曾與小痞子黑仔共同販毒，最後因慈濟證嚴法師的法而獲得救贖。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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