The Goddess



Lianhua Film Company
Filmed at the Shanghai Studio No. 1

Producer: Luo Mingyou
Studio manager: Li Minwei
Photography: Hong Weilie
Sets: Wu Yonggang
Script and director: Wu Yonggang
Cast: RUAN LINGYU,
Li Jian, Zhang Zhizhi

The prostitute struggles in the whirlpool of life. In the streets of the night, she is a lowly prostitute.  When she holds her child up, she is a saintly mother. Between these two lives, she has shown her formidable character.

I've already fed Shuiping. Please pay attention when he wakes up.

How should you thank me? Tonight you're not going away!

 

I had no idea she had a child!

When there’s such good food, we'd better have some wine!

Today we’re drinking for our boss’s wedding, you should drink one more cup!

Don’t think of refusing a toast. Go ask how powerful your old man is. A lonely woman like you is still thinking of doing business outside?

From then on boss Zhang regarded her as his property.

Now I’ve made up for all the money I owed.

I can’t go on like this.I decided to move out and then find a way to make a living.Please don’t tell him where I went.

The Child? Someone already bought him for a hundred dollars.

 

This is just to show you my power. If you still want to have the child…

Monkey King traveled far and still didn’t get out of Buddha’s palm.

She had to escape again from boss Zhang’s clutches.Every day, the child grew bigger and contributed to his mother’s worries.

I told you more than once, don’t play with this trash.

Why do they always curse me as trash?

Don’t play with them next time.

It pierced her heart that her child was cursed as trash, making her feel the need that he should get an education.

What’s the father’s occupation?

 

His father is dead.

Their new life began, filling her with renewd excitement.

And you give money to the child to study! I never could read a single word and still managed so far.

It’s none of your business if my child studies.

Today teacher taught me PE, like this.

I’ll play the teacher, you play the student. Raise your arms level, waist straight!

One, two, one, two, one, two…

I won’t go out tonight.

 

My mother said he’s trash and told me not to play with him.

Trash, trash, trash…

Today I’ve lost all my money again.

One day I’ll show you my power.

The day after tomorrow the school will hold open house.  Teacher asked me to go on stage and sing.

To bring closely together the school and the students’ parents, we are holding today an open house.

Calling at dawn,
Calling at dusk,
Calling at dusk for the Times extra issue, for the late-evening newspaper.

 

Young in years,
Voices bright,
At morning dawn breaks,
In the evening the moon rises.
Calling in the streets,
Calling in the alleys,
Calling in the streets until the voice gets weak,
Calling in the alleys and the din comes stronger,
My parents at home are old,
From morning to evening, my stomach is never full.

Do you all know what she does for a living?

Since students’ parents wrote letters of complaint, fearing that this child of lowly origins might be the bad apple to spoil the crop, the school principal decided to investigate the matter thoroughly.

You're studying hard. Tomorrow I’ll by a new pair of shoes for you.

 

Many people say that this child’s parent has a dubious occupation.

If this is true, then for the sake of the school’s reputation we must ask the student to leave.

True, I am what they say I am.  To put food on the table I live in shame.  It’s all for the child's sake, he is all I live for.

Although I am a woman of low standing, I am still this child's mother. Are you saying I'm not allowed to want him to study well?

I use the money from selling my body to send him to school.  I want him to be a good person.  Is my child unworthy of studying?

I’m ashamed of myself. I was wrong. I can’t expel a child with a mother like you.

 

I investigated and concluded that the child’s mother is indeed a prostitute, but this is a problem of our entire society.  We cannot deny her character, and especially the child’s character.

To make a living, she has no choice but to struggle in the whirlpool of life. For the child’s future, she wants him to have an education.  We are responsible for education and are even more obliged to save the child of this mother from bad environment.

The Principal’s opinion seems to be emotionally biased.  We must pay attention to the objective environment.

Right.  We must also pay attention to the parents’ complaints, or it will impact our school’s future.

You have completely overlooked the principles of education.  We can’t harm a student’s future to accommodate the common people’s erroneous mentality.

I absolutely cannot act this way. Otherwise, I'll leave this school.

 

The principal acted firmly and submitted his resignation, while the school officially announced the child’s expulsion.

Posted note: After investigating and verifying that the student comes from an improper household, we duly expel the student out of concern for our school's reputation

Teacher told me not to come to school anymore as of tomorrow.

They really did it.  We two can’t find our place among them.  We’d better leave, to a place where no one knows us.

If you don’t return the money to me today, none of us can go on living.

I’ve already spent the money, what’s the use of grabbing me?

Then I’ll fight to my death with you.

 

What about my child? Let me out!

Newspaper heading: Verdict in the gambling den murder case: female offender convicted of murder, sentenced to 12 years in jail

You lied to me, what did you come for?

They wouldn’t let me do as I promised to you, now your child…

The child?

The court has ordered the child to be taken to an orphanage, but I can take care of things for you and raise him for you.

Once the child had a mother like me, every one will look down on him for his entire life.

However, after he’s grown up, please tell him that his mother has already died.  Don’t let him know he had this kind of mother.

In the solitude of life in jail she had only one consolation.  She would envision the child’s bright future.