After shock, the movie, was only made known to me during my previous visit to the cinemas. I caught the trailer.

It was heart wrenching. Totally pains me to see that lil girl like that. You gotta catch the trailer too, to know what am I talking about! No regrets!!

Watch the trailer here: After Shock Trailer!

The movie depicts the scenes of a terrible natural disaster an earthquake in Tang Shan (唐山大地震) in the year 1976. Knowing that it was a real-life story just made it worst, more heart-aching. This tragedy took 240,000 lives away.. =’(

Thanks to OMY.SG, I got to catch the preview of the movie After Shock. & I brought Ruo Yan darling to catch the movie with me! :))

As expected, it was a movie that draws tears from its audiences. Many were whizzing and sobbing inside the theatres,  and I was almost reduced to tears during some scenes..

I’d rate the movie 3.5/5.

Do catch the movie on the 29th of July when its out in the cinemas! PREPARE TISSUE PAPER OKAY IF YOURE A PERSON WHOSE TEAR DUCTS ARE ACTIVATED EASILY! :(

Synopsis:

When a mother is informed by the rescue team that, as her 7-year old twins are buried under the debris close to each other, digging one out would result in further collapse of the wreckage on the other, she is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life. As the clock ticked away, she finally ended her struggle and chose to save the boy, and though heartbroken, she had no idea her decision was overheard by the daughter. Deemed as a dead person, the little girl miraculously survived and was rescued after being buried under for days. Suffering from the emotional shock of the disaster and the painful memory of her mother’s choice, she refused to reveal whom she was. She was adopted by a young couple and later moved to the US, but shadowed by the traumatic experience from her childhood, she forever remained emotionally closed up.

When the Sichuan earthquake takes over 80,000 lives in 2008, she volunteers to join the rescue team and returns to her homeland, China. As she witnesses the tribulations people go through when a natural disaster takes place, she finally unlocks the pain she had felt all these years and finds forgiveness. She finally reunites with the mother and twin brother she had parted from after 32 years. A human drama about finding forgiveness, ‘Aftershock’ depicts not only the fatal tragedy that is brought on by a natural disaster of great levels, but also the strength and courage that is demonstrated when we are in face of extreme and devastating situations.