English title: The Blue Kite.
A woman raises a son through the upheavals in Chinese society.
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
The Rectification of 1953, the Great Leap Forward of 1958, the Cultural Revolution of 1968. Her first husband went to the bathroom at the wrong moment; the report which sent him to a labor camp was written by the second husband. Widowed again, remarried again, her third one was lynched by the Red Guard for being a counter-revolutionary. She tried to stop them, they sent her to a camp. The child was left orphaned. Side stories: the army entertainer who didn't want to fuck her superiors (she went to prison); the brother who suffered from progressive blindness (avoid stress, the doctor said); the mother who eventually complains the revolution has been going on for 20 years, is there anything left to change? Her daughter chides her for being outspoken, she replies that she has one foot in the grave anyway.
The style is dry. Well written, well directed, well acted. But it does feel cursory.
Rating: 60
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