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To Live (1994)
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"I liked this movie overall. I've been thinking about it for days, mostly because of the tragic circumstances that befall this family. To Live opened my eyes to Chinese history and how the government affects the lives of every day citizens. The sacrifice that people made for the good of the whole or the good of the government is difficult to watch. I.E. giving up pots and pans to be melt down for iron for the war. Or sending your children off to work in the refineries. For a me, it was a bit of a tear-jerker and overall I found the movie sad. The main characters ability to bear it and carry on is inspiring. That said, I'm not sure I'd watch it again. "
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"The message of Lou Ye's film "Summer Palace" seems to be this: depressed people have sex. A lot. There are three major characters in Ye's film that have some obvious issues, and all of them waste no time hopping into bed with each other in an attempt to escape their apparent (and unexplained) pain. The director manages to make this situation somewhat interesting during the first half of the movie, but the last half drags miserably to a conclusion that doesn't seem like a neat wrap-up of the events we've witnessed, but a confession that Ye is just as bored with the movie as the audience is, and he wanted it to be over as much as I did. It's pretty seldom that I come across a film that has me counting down the minutes until the end, but "Summer Palace" managed to do just that. The story starts with Yu Hong, a girl from a small town in China who gets accepted to Beijing University just before the Tiananmen Square massacre. She makes friends with ... "
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