Wow. It is a wild ride reading the comments here. There are some genuine ones that praise the documentary and those that point out its strengths and weaknesses and criticize them in articulately and poignantly.
Others still... are calling the movie itself a propaganda while trying to gaslight the documentarian. I'm seeing a lot of comments that go something like: "the one child policy was generally a bad thing, however [...]". However, what? It was a demented social 'experiment' to forcibly control the population by all means necessary which involved inhumane doctrine taking away civil liberty. There is no excuse. I can think of at LEAST one other major catastrophic event similar to this in our lifetime that attempted, and partially succeeded, at this. HMM.
It is explicitly stated that people are afraid to speak about specific events on camera because they do not want to become enemies of the state. It is crazy to me that people will sit here, completely removed from the world and the lives depicted on the documentary, and say "no, I don't think this actually happened." You don't have to look far to see articles upon articles on how sterilizations and abortions were forced in this era. It is factual. Denying this happened is tantamount to denying the Holocaust.
There are many reviews that claim that the documentarian is a hypocrite because she promotes autonomy over a woman's own body while denouncing forced abortions and sterilizations. These reviews liken a woman's choice to abort her fetus to state-regulated forced abortions. WHAT? Did I seriously read that correctly? There are really reviews here calling her a hypocrite and that a woman's choice to abort her fetus (whatever her reason may be) is just as bad as a state forcing it upon an unwilling woman.
I'm gonna call it like I see it - I think many of these reviews are propaganda from the Chinese government or sympathizers.
Others still... are calling the movie itself a propaganda while trying to gaslight the documentarian. I'm seeing a lot of comments that go something like: "the one child policy was generally a bad thing, however [...]". However, what? It was a demented social 'experiment' to forcibly control the population by all means necessary which involved inhumane doctrine taking away civil liberty. There is no excuse. I can think of at LEAST one other major catastrophic event similar to this in our lifetime that attempted, and partially succeeded, at this. HMM.
It is explicitly stated that people are afraid to speak about specific events on camera because they do not want to become enemies of the state. It is crazy to me that people will sit here, completely removed from the world and the lives depicted on the documentary, and say "no, I don't think this actually happened." You don't have to look far to see articles upon articles on how sterilizations and abortions were forced in this era. It is factual. Denying this happened is tantamount to denying the Holocaust.
There are many reviews that claim that the documentarian is a hypocrite because she promotes autonomy over a woman's own body while denouncing forced abortions and sterilizations. These reviews liken a woman's choice to abort her fetus to state-regulated forced abortions. WHAT? Did I seriously read that correctly? There are really reviews here calling her a hypocrite and that a woman's choice to abort her fetus (whatever her reason may be) is just as bad as a state forcing it upon an unwilling woman.
I'm gonna call it like I see it - I think many of these reviews are propaganda from the Chinese government or sympathizers.