To live

1. During the Revolution, it was hard to survive. So their only goal was to stay alive.
2. All the men had same condition as him. They all had to go to fight for their country. They could not tell their family and when they died their family would not know about it.
3. Even though Jiaz’s two children were all died, the life had to go on, too. So she had to adapt the live without her children staying with her.
4. When he was rich, he wasted his time on gambling even though he had told his wife not to. But when he became poor, he realized that money was not important, the most important thing was to stay with his family.
5. Mr. Niu would be killed when he was caught by the government because he was the leader of this town. Government would let the people who had their own thinking way to stay alive.
6. The boy wsa killed he was sleeping and the driver was going back, then he died and the driver got injured. Even though the boy had more serious injury then the driver, but they only send the driver to the hospital because they thought the boy’s life was not important.
When the girl had her baby born, there were no proper doctors in the hospital so she died. In that century, people who smart and had power would be caught by the government because they afraid they would lead the people to take over their power.
7. People worked hard to help their government to control the other countries. When they need steel to make the weapons, everyone gave their own things to the government.
8. They were not rich, but they all suffer from the war and they were happy about their life to stay with their family.
9. Government didn’t want their citizens knew about the truth and the bad thing they do. They didn’t want citizens had their point of view of government made wrong thing and afraid if they knew the truth, the citizens would take over the government.
10. My rate for this movie was four points. The director and the actors explained the life in China well. I thought when Fugui and his friends were and singing and didn’t know there were all soldiers out there. So when they got caught, they went to the war. And when they waked up and the morning, they saw everyone died. When they trying to run away, they got caught by the Red Guards and sent to their home. It was very scary and sad when I saw that people died in this war. I didn’t like the director explained two of his children died. Because they did not do anything wrong and I thought Fugui and his wife were sad because all if their children died from the accidents.