From the eyes of Tiehou, a small child born in 1953, the movie shows the impact of several political movements from 1953 to 1967 (Da Lun Daxing, Anti-Rightist, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution) on people’s lives and thoughts, and the different encounters of ordinary people who were carried forward by the times in the various movements. The most unlucky one is Tie Tou’s father, because he went to the toilet during a meeting and came back to become a rightist. The movie records the real life and society in different historical periods through a down-to-earth approach, and it’s very shocking to just record the life in this way, and the mood is very heavy after watching it, which makes people feel very pessimistic, and perhaps, a more positive attitude is how to avoid the future of people to face such a destiny again.
1993 / China, Hong Kong / Drama, History / Tian Zhuangzhuang / Lv Liping Pu Cunxin
From the point of view of the “son” Tie Tou, the film memorializes the three fathers (father, uncle and stepfather) and the mother Chen Shu Juan (Lv Liping) during the political movements in mainland China from 1953 to 1967.
The first memories of “Dad” Lin Shaolong (Pu Cunxin) are beautiful and innocent, but after he is classified as a rightist in the anti-rightist struggle, everything changes, and his mother waits anxiously for the news that he has been crushed to death by a falling tree; then Dad’s good friend Li Guodong (Li Xuejian), Uncle Li, enters the lives of Tietou and his mother, and the “Uncle” is a good friend of Tietou and his mother, and the “Uncle” is a good friend of Tietou. “Uncle” is a very good person, but in the Great Leap Forward late in the Great Desert, but also because of the disease died; followed by the mother’s third husband, the old cadres (Guo Baochang) became Tiehou’s “stepfather”, at first Tiehou did not have any good feelings about him, just when the two men Just as the two men are shaking hands, his “stepfather” is killed by the rebels during the Cultural Revolution, and his mother is classified as a counter-revolutionary.
