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  • Lupe 2022-05-08 18:49:47

    For people living in our age, this is undoubtedly a sci-fi film (the Cultural Revolution is very...

  • Matt 2022-05-08 15:42:47

    I found the novel I read first to find out this movie. I like Yu Hua’s novels. Most of the novels are about the joys and sorrows of small characters. The fate of the protagonist’s family is more comprehensible when I read the novel. Day after day, there are his parents, wives, daughters, and sons in the tomb next to the land, and they seem to hear the yelling of the...

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  • Xu Fugui: What did you name our son?

    Xu Jiazhen: "Don't Gamble".

  • Xu Fugui: If Youqing does as daddy says, our lives will get better and better. Our family is like a little chicken. When it grows up, it becomes a goose and that will turn into a sheep. The sheep will turn into an ox.

    Xu Youqing: And after the ox?

    Xu Fugui: After the ox is Communism, and there will be dumplings and meat every day.