9/10
George Hogg left deep footprints on China territory, something worthwhile fighting for!!
20 January 2024
Meanwhile was shooting his first major role as King Henry VIII on famous Tudors series Jonathan Rhys Meyers got the role to play a Bigger Than Life character of George Hogg, a notorious British adventures and freelancer journalist after travelling around the world ends up on China at 1937 when the powerful Japanese army invaded the country, in the meantime the war has broken out in whole world, there between Chinese nationalist and communist Hogg meets Chen Hansheng (Chow Yun-Fat) and the Red Cross's New Zelander nurse Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell), at Shaanxi province.

Aftermaths he was moving to care a small orphanage, there he makes it work out, fixing the old generator, sowing vegetables and teaching around sixty Chinese orphans. After the Chinese nationalist arriving there, he afraid to their orphans should be recruit to fight, he decides moving to farr off Gansu Province nearby Mongolia, they travelled by wagons pulled by mules for 450 miles until Lanzhou at yellow river, aftermaths the local rulers allowed him five trucks for final leg into Shandan, where a small scratch at your hands will changes everything on their lives.

George Hoggs coming from a pacifist family and as such he keeping it untouchable as its own legacy henceforth, his life portraited in this picture gives us an small sample of such greatness, there he got highest regards from Chinese major citizens at Shaanxi province including an influential business woman, his sojourn at Chinese ground is keep alive for good, a man that passing by there left deep footprints wherever he were, sixty orphans witnessed such marvelous journey on closing credits, something worthwhile fighting for.

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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: Blu-Ray / Rating: 9.
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