Chinese movie condemns Mao's Culural Revolution...

A simple love story running to packed houses in cinema halls across China has become an instrument for the Communist Party to criticize its own past. The movie is replete with dialogue denouncing several aspects of Mao Dezong’s rule during the Cultural Revolution in the seventies.

The movie tells the story of young lovers, who suffer due to the regime’s suspicion and intolerance towards children of political dissidents. The girl’s father is in jail for his rightist views and she and her mother are under surveillance.

The boy’s mother was forced to commit suicide because she had capitalistic attitudes like dressing smartly and applying make-up. More...

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