Mrs. Fang completes an unofficial trilogy: the decay of the human self.
Wang Bing has addressed this criticism directly. He notes that the family was involved throughout the process. The title Mrs. Fang , given to the film posthumously, was a sign of respect. He has said in interviews that the film is not about death, but about life —about the life that remains in a body even when the mind has departed. Mrs. Fang- Wang Bing -2017-
The film introduces us to Fang Xiuying, an elderly woman living in a small village in Huzhou, Zhejiang province. At the time of filming, Mrs. Fang was 86 years old. She suffers from severe Alzheimer's disease. Unlike the sprawling social canvases of Wang’s previous work, the scope here is microscopic. We are confined largely to the interior of a house, specifically the room where Mrs. Fang lies. He notes that the family was involved throughout the process
Alzheimer's is often cinematically portrayed through the lens of memory loss—forgetting names, losing the past. But Wang Bing bypasses the clinical symptoms to focus on the present reality of the body. In the early scenes, before she becomes bedridden, we see Mrs. Fang attempting to navigate a world that no longer makes sense to her. She is restless, wandering, muttering in a local dialect that requires subtitles even for Mandarin speakers. Her eyes are wide, searching, often fearful. She is a stranger in her own life. He has said in interviews that the film