This was a beautiful film and people story. I got some very different messages than the ones I can read here since I do not speak any form of Chinese dialect. I thought this film clearly pointed out the numerous human reactions and behaviors that make humans tick and why? Power, Greed, Sex, various forms of materialism becoming far too engrossed in the personal psyche ! XUI XUI was completely mind effed by the system, just as many are today although in a different system paradigm and totally different dynamics. She destroyed herself for a political system and how many times have we all seen this happen every where one looks ? The control freaks of government are everywhere ! Also to put this film in better perspective, the Cultural Revolution was winding down by 1975 and the many atrocoties and incredibly horrendous and heavy handed acts of the purge prior to this time frame in the 60s was much more severe than this film reveals. I thought the film was brilliant and very emotionally and intellectually moving on many levels. It gets a 10 from me for numerous reasons. I will use this as an example going forward. Excellent ! I love good people stories and this was a great one, right up there with Platoon and Forrest Gump. Platoon was not a war story really, but a documentary of how people reacted to extreme stimuli and we will see more of such ! The comments here about men is a bit ridiculous, ignorant and far short of what the film was actually about. But we see a lot of PC these days everywhere we look and misguided people ?
Steve Baze2 years ago