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About the shifting, unpredictable currents behind the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this documentary shows the various phases of the 12 years from 1964 through the purging of the Gang of Four at the end of 1976, with some retrospective information about the Long March and the 1958 Great Leap forward. It is built around contemporary interviews with survivors of three families: The most prominent is Liu Shaoqi, the President of China until 1967 & the highest ranking target of th... (Full plot summary below)

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About the shifting, unpredictable currents behind the Chinese Cultural Revolution, this documentary shows the various phases of the 12 years from 1964 through the purging of the Gang of Four at the end of 1976, with some retrospective information about the Long March and the 1958 Great Leap forward. It is built around contemporary interviews with survivors of three families: The most prominent is Liu Shaoqi, the President of China until 1967 & the highest ranking target of the revolution, his wife, Wang Guangmei and his daughter Liu Ting. The most complete coverage was given to a former secretary to Mao, Li Rui, who was banished when he questioned the Great Leap forward. He was rehabilitated in the early 60's, but not brought back into the Party and was banished again when the Cultural revolution started. Li's daughter Li Nanyang who was 11 or 12 when Li Rui was first imprisoned, was a staunch supporter of the Cultural Revolution, but she was never allowed to join the Party because of her father's background. Both daughters' reactions to and discomfort with their fathers was a major thread. This film also highlights the social pressure and Li Nanyang's loss of face among her student peers, which lasted until her father was rehabilitated in 1979. The third family was middle class and capitalist before the 1949 revolution and was therefore suspect. The older brother, Yu Luoke who was refused entry to university, asserted that the revolution was going astray by focusing on the family background of students. His poster asking for equal treatment for everyone, no matter what their family background was celebrated for several months, but then he was arrested and finally executed in 1970. His brother, Yu Luowen now still does not know the whole story, but can tell of how their paper was shut down when the winds changed in 1968. Another thread focused on two teenaged Red Guards, and their disillusionment with the violence that developed after the first few months of the Cultural Revolution.

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San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by G. Allen JohnsonIt is a well-researched smorgasbord of newsreel and documentary footage spliced with current interviews with those on the front lines.
Salon.com - 9/10 by Charles TaylorThe story they are telling here is still in the process of being written. It's as good a sign as any of how absorbing Morning Sun is that the film's sudden ending makes you greedy for more.
New York Post - 9/10 by V.A. MusettoIt's scary to see how one man can brainwash a gigantic nation, as Mao did.
Village Voice - 8/10 by Hua HsuGripping, relentlessly tragic retelling of life in revolutionary times.
TV Guide Magazine - 7/10 by Ken FoxInformative and richly illustrated documentary.
The New York Times - 7/10 by A.O. ScottDoes a thoughtful job of streamlining the bloody realities -- both literal and psychological -- of China's Cultural Revolution into roughly two hours of film.
Film Journal International - 7/10 by Maria GarciaA documentary that explores, on many levels, the roots of modern China, and that puts into perspective all of the sublime Chinese narrative films which have recently received Western distribution.
Entertainment Weekly - 7/10 by Owen GleibermanUsing newsreel footage, clips of artistic propaganda (e.g., joyful proletarian farm ballets), and interviews with survivors, the movie draws us into the annihilating fervor of an era in which purge followed upon purge, in escalating waves of terror and control.
Variety - 5/10 by Derek ElleyAdmirably balanced production that pulls the curtain back slightly on a little-charted period of modern Chinese history.
User Review - 5/10 by BenWomackConcerned with being true. Thoroughly worthwhile. A little, using what was mainstream in culture at the time, to infer this had great significance on what most people are like (The East is Red opera, The Gadfly motion picture novel adaptation). But history lesson, good. Thank you.

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