Film review of <Mountain may depart> Part 1 Mountain may depart was firstly screened in China in 2015.As a feature film, it’s also the second film of director Jia Zhangke to be public released in Chinese theater. In the film, from 1999 to 2025, there’s a story of a mother and a son being told. In 1999, young girl Shen Tao (Zhao Tao) has made a difficult choice among a triangle love, in which she choose Zhang Jinsheng(Zhang Yi) to be her officially boyfriend. Because of this, Liang Zi(Liang Jingdong) who loves Tao deeply and be heart broken, has to leave the hometown to get away from this sadness. After 15 years, Liang finds himself heavily sick when he works in a coal field in another city, so he takes his quiet wife and little baby son to go back to the hometown for resting. At then, Tao has already divorced with Zhang and runs a gas station by her own, becoming a successful business woman. Knowing this terrible condition of the old lover, she gives Liang a help in economy without any doubt. However ,something unwilling soon happened on her that her old father died accidently in a bus station. With desperately sorrow, Tao calls back her son Dollar who hasn’t met her for years to take part in the funeral. Just stay with Dollar for a few days, then Tao has heard about that her son will soon be sent to Australia to live. Time rushed and then in 2025,Dollar has grown up as a native Australian who can speak English fluently but not a Chinese word. Although Zhang, Dollar’s father , has also moved to Australia and live together with Dollar, they two need Google Translate to communicate. This kind of life patterns confuses and frustrates Dollar, which makes him deciding to leave the home. And he does make it with the help of his Chinese teacher Miya, who also becomes his girlfriend despite a huge age gap.