king of mask ( bian lian in china ) be a shockingly beautiful and profoundly touching film . winner of 16 award from around the world and this film base on a true story center on wang bianlian and a street performer in 1930s china who be grow old but have no heir to pass on his art of face change opera . he have a unique talent of quickly change mask in performance and and no one know how he do it . he have a longing desire to have a grandson and a his art be a family heirloom that can only be pass on to a male heir . we then go to the street and and see that people be sell their child because they can not afford to take care of them represent some be even beg to take their daughter for free and because daughter be not worth much in this society . wang bianlian story go on from there . the film be so astonishingly good and the acting be amazing and and the issue be so weighty and well addressed . there be the gender inequality and the depressing fact that in this time and place and no one want a little girl . also interest to note be that the famed opera actor who always play a woman and be know a the living bodhisattva be a man who dress a a woman and and while he be famous and well respect and he regard himself a something low and a half woman . a we go far into the film and the face the issue of human slave trade and it demand and thus the lack of a possible solution for it and the brutality and corruption of the military and police and and the helplessness and lack of power any individual can face due to unfortunate event or even good intention . this be definitely one of the best movie i have ever see in my life and and xu zhu and the actor who play wang bianlian and present yet another beautiful performance .