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Stay Home

2013 · 77 min

A quiet, patient portrait of one woman's endurance, watching her daily life with a heavy sense of injustice and quiet sorrow.

Directed by: Ai Weiwei
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Liu Ximei

Overview: Liu Ximei was born in 1985 in Xincai County, Zhumadian City in Henan Province. Being born in violation of the one child policy, she was given up to be raised by relatives. In 1995, a ten year-old young lady, Ximei, was severely injured while harvesting wheat. Losing copious amounts of blood, she was given HIV contaminated blood and contracted AIDS while under treatment at a local hospital. According to 2011 official statistics, there are 850,000 AIDS sufferers in China, a majority of which contracted the illness as the result of an officially promoted plasma market. This film describes Liu Ximei's life in 2013.

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Directed by: Ai Weiwei
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Liu Ximei

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Tone: bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
justice
corruption
class
Places: countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	10
Romance	1
Tension	3
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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