Baby (2018) (DVD) (Taiwan Version)

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Known to explore contemporary social conditions & maladies in acclaimed films like Young Style & Judge, Chinese filmmaker Liu Jie takes on the issue of baby abandonment & social welfare in Baby. Produced by Hou Hsiao Hsien, the critical yet compassionate film stars popular actress Mini Yang ( Brotherhood of Blades: The Infernal Battlefield) as a woman desperately trying to save a baby born with defects. Also co-starring Guo Jingfei ( The Liquidator) & Lee Hong Chi ( Thanatos Drunk), Baby sheds light on the plight of the disabled & the legal implications of parenthood & family in China.

Disabled young woman Jiang Meng (Mini Yang) heads to the city to earn money to support her elderly foster mother. At the hospital where she works as a cleaner, she encounters a baby girl with the same life-threatening congenital defect as her, & feels an instant connection. Faced with the prospect of multiple operations, the babys father (Guo Jingfei) chooses to give up treatment. When Meng discovers the fathers decision, she goes to increasing lengths to find & save the baby girl. In the process, her own difficult past comes to light.