5/15/19

Today we continued our viewing of To Live. We also discussed the reason behind the viewing of the film. This film shows the extremely complex nature of early communism in China. While historians often paint this as a terrible time, the people during this time period did not always see it that way. There were extreme hardships experienced by families (as seen in the film), but a unity and a desire to move forward at all costs as well. While the atrocities committed by the Chinese government are not to be downplayed, it is important to not paint the entire country through this lens. To Live shows the resilience of the Chinese people and the ability to make the best of all they experienced.