“The reason why I chose to be a director was not for shooting films but for Li Huanying,” Jia Ling told The Paper.

Li Huanying, Jia’s mother, passed away when Jia was 19. To express her sadness and regret, Jia decided to make a film named Hi, Mom, which was shown on Feb 12. Based on her personal experiences, the film describes Jia traveling back to the year 1981, when she meets her mother at a young age and tries to improve her mother’s life.

The 39-year-old never imagined that her directorial work would make history. As of Feb 23, it has taken in over 4 billion yuan, according to professional box office tracker Dengta.

Hi, Mom has received many positive reviews. Many moviegoers couldn’t help but run tears for the film’s description of the close relationship between a daughter and her mother.

“Jia’s success comes as a surprise, as the work is special. She puts her love and memories of her deceased (过世的) mother into the film and lets the viewers feel her sincerity (真诚),” Shi Chuan, a chairman of the Shanghai Film Association, told the Global Times.

Indeed, the movie’s sincerity and touching moments make up for its technical features. It has reminded internet users to celebrate and love their mothers. Numbers of photos and texts flooded into weibo with a hashtag photo of my mother when she was young. With the film gaining attraction by word of mouth, the new director “is already China’s most commercially successful female filmmaker ever”, The Hollywood Reporter noted.

When you think of the cinema, the phrase “watching a movie” probably comes to mind, and, in fact, moviemakers work very hard to make the pictures wonderful. But movies also contain stories, dialogues, music, and sound effects which people don’t need to see in order to enjoy.

Movie reviewer Marty Klein has created a website called Blindspots to help blind people choose movies that they can follow without the help of an assistant to explain what is happening on the screen. Klein gives movies a rating from 1 to 10 based on several factors. A movie receives a high rating if there are only a few main characters whose voices are easy to recognize. Klein also likes an interesting story without too many changes in time and place.

Of course, blind or visually impaired people can enjoy many films with the help of a friend who doesn’t mind explaining the parts of a movie that can only be seen. But that means that someone is talking during the movie, which could annoy some audience members. To solve these problems, movie theaters provide wireless headsets with which blind people can hear a recorded narration. The narration includes descriptions of the movements, scenery, and special effects that other audience members can see on screen during the movie. This allows them to listen to the narration while still hearing a movie’s music and other sounds.

Another blind movie reviewer, Jay Forry, writes movie reviews that are published on his website, Blindside Reviews. He also writes for newspapers and is a guest on radio shows. Forry became a writer after going blind at the age of 28 and deciding to go to college. His first review appeared in the college newspaper. Forry’s writing skills and sense of humor are what keep people reading his review or listening to them on the radio. After “watching” The Sixth Sense, Forry commented that he thought the movie was excellent, but that he envied (嫉妒) the boy was the main character, “He had six senses, and I only have four.”

Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse are two of the most popular cartoon characters in the world. In the short cartoons, Tom is always trying to catch Jerry, but he never has any success. Almost every cartoon ends (A) ________ Tom in trouble and Jerry laughing at him. (B)这些故事充满乐趣 and have a long history.

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera both worked for MGM in the late 1930s. Their boss told them to make (C) funny cartoons. Together they thought of the idea of a cat and a mouse. They thought it would be funny (D) ________ the mouse was clever and always got the cat into trouble.

The first Tom and Jerry cartoon was shown in cinemas in 1940. It was a great success. Over the next 17 years, they made (E) a number of Tom and Jerry cartoons. Most of them are around seven minutes long.

In total, Hanna and Barbera made 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons. (F) They were such good cartoons that they won many awards. The famous cat and mouse remain popular today, as the cartoons are still shown on television around the world.