Replacing all parts of society's leaders with inexperienced youth. What could be worse than stating that schools and books were useless? Leaving young gangs roving the streets to commit horrendous crimes. After 20 years of chaos and labeling people things they were not even remotely guilty of, things actually got worse The Cultural Revolution caused three times as many deaths as the Jewish Holocaust in Europe, yet, in the West, only one of a hundred Westerners knows anything about it. It was as if an idiot was in charge of the country giving idiotic orders. Needlessly killing sparrows for some obscure reason, and tryin to make steel from ordinary household items that contained only fragments of iron. Unbelievably, the upheaval got worse with the Great Leap Forward, which was more like a great leap up and down without going anywhere. This impacted on the most sacred part of Chinese tradition the family. For this, they were sent to work farms, prisons, and other places far away from home. In reality, the vast majority of people who rendered opinions, were merely rendering their opinions. People who differed with the CCP during this period were known as rightests and counter-revolutionaries. Then, without effort, the film glides to the elimination of private property and businesses, and then on to Hundred Flowers Campaign, which, to put it in simple terms for uninitiated Westerners, is like someone asking you for your honest opinion, and then putting you in jail after you give it. Very few, if any, films about China illustrate the initiation of collectivism in the early days of the CCP. ![]() ![]() You can pretty much mark that up to massive Western ignorance of good Chinese cinema. Movies are generally made for money, and this one did not make a lot of money. These films are generally superior to Hollywood films in every respect except bod office receipts and that is an important exception. This film is up there with the best of them equal to The Horse Thief and the King of Masks, my other two favorite Chinese films.
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