Highly recommend The Home Song Stories (2007), an australian production with Joan Chen as the main character. You will need a tissue box. if you're based in aus, you can stream it on SBS: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/watch/2133003331971
Now people are calling this a propaganda movie, lol. We’ve watched thousands of Nazi movies, none of them were…
right?? if we're gonna call Dead to Rights propaganda, then we need to be calling stuff like the Marvel franchise propaganda too, yeah. The double standards are so blatant.
omg tysm for this review, glad you brought up the gambling den scene cos i had forgotten how good some of the earlier eps were, after all those later eps left a bad taste in the mouth.
i too made the mistake of watching this while watching Nirvana in Fire AND a Dream Within a Dream - which meant i was giggling during the cliff falling ep.
if you haven't watched A Dream Within A Dream yet, i highly recommend it as a palate cleanser cos it pokes fun at a lot of the tropes that dramas like Princess Gambit love to overuse :)
Dude, you keep spamming this garbage about the movie being CCP propaganda and somehow causing the Jiangyou protests,…
I feel like Dead to Rights is a case of two things being true at once: it's nationalistic propaganda *and* a depiction of a major historical atrocity. Perhaps controversially, I think it's okay to consume propaganda (we do it all the time anyway, whether we like it or not), but just to do so critically with a big pinch of salt. I feel like Chinese films also tend to cop way more heat on this subject compared to many western films which, using the same yardstick, would also count as propaganda. I think Dead to Rights is no where near as insidious as, for example, nationalistic films coming out of my own country such as Gallipoli (1981) or Australia (2008).
i was really glad to see Lawrence Wang in this cos i hadn't seen him since Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms. i found his acting helped cut through the morbidity later in the movie.
Yes, u need to watch more. The story will get better and better. I almost dropped it but binged watch ep 30-54.…
Thank you both! That's reassuring. I just finished ep 19 and I'm starting to feel the intricacy of the plot slowly digging its fangs into me.... I think you're right: I'll probably be fully into it by the time I get to ep 30.
To the folks who have really enjoyed this drama: I'm about 16 eps in and I'm still not really getting into it. Is it worth me sticking it through a bit longer? Or if I'm not liking it at this point already, should I just drop it?
This article from Sixth Tone features the people of the documentary but also shares some details that don't come up in Hidden Figures: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002805
i too made the mistake of watching this while watching Nirvana in Fire AND a Dream Within a Dream - which meant i was giggling during the cliff falling ep.
if you haven't watched A Dream Within A Dream yet, i highly recommend it as a palate cleanser cos it pokes fun at a lot of the tropes that dramas like Princess Gambit love to overuse :)