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It tells about the Chinese people's blood connection and spiritual inheritance, and reproduces the memories of the times of Chinese people's hard work. (Source: Google Translate Douban) Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • עברית / עִבְרִית
  • dansk
  • Country: China
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Sep 30, 2021
  • Duration: 2 hr. 36 min.
  • Score: 7.7 (scored by 36 users)
  • Ranked: #68369
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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0nlyJulia
2 people found this review helpful
Jul 15, 2023
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Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10

Beautiful movie

Loved the unique plot! All actors and actresses did a terrific job, especially the young kids - I cannot even count the number of times my eyes brimmed with tears at the emotional experience, and the number of times I burst out laughing at the funny scenes. The script was written very well. All four stories are masterpieces - the visual colour grading and shooting was also top quality. Would definitely recommend - this movie contains wonderful Chinese history and has an inspirational moral, about people sacrificing their personal gain for a better world. Much respect to all the unknown heroes who have toiled to make our world a better place!

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John Hart
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Dec 26, 2022
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Overall 7.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 6.0

A Pile of China Can Do Stories INSTEAD OF One Compelling Feature

I was tricked by the description of this film. On this site it says, "It tells about the Chinese people's blood connection and spiritual inheritance." I knew it was four short films and presumed it was a generational story, meaning a character that was, say, a boy in the first film would be a man in the second one... and... perhaps that man's daughter would be a woman in the next film. A 'blood connection' that would have made these four films a coherent whole.

Instead what we get is a 'pile' of 4 stories, moving forward in time but really with no relation to each other. No, there's no 'spiritual inheritance' to speak of. It's simply 4 stories about what China CAN DO when they set their minds to things, and in this way is like a cultural victory walk.

I'd say the first two segments (war, space research) were excellent dramatic pieces. But the second two segments change to comedy and sort of silly sci-fi, which is a little jarring. It leaves the viewer with the feeling these four films were part of some contest and were never intended to be shown together.

I gave the overall story rating a 6 out of 10 for this reason. Please understand each individual story was better than that, say about an 8 on average. But the feeling these were all originally different projects just stapled together really hurts this otherwise well made, well acted and well intended film.

By the way -- Zhang Zi Yi stars in another film just like this, RUN FOR LOVE, except the theme tying it all together is love. It feels even more disjointed than this and I'm convinced it's simply some short films by graduate school students. Zhang's "So Long My Love" is rather excellent. Better than her segment 'Poem' in this film that is also rather amazing. I must confess I'd love Zhang to create another short or two and tie them all together as a Zhang Zi Yi collection of stories.

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  • Movie: My Country, My Parents
  • Country: China
  • Release Date: Sep 30, 2021
  • Duration: 2 hr. 36 min.
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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  • Score: 7.7 (scored by 36 users)
  • Ranked: #68369
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Watchers: 187

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