Shui-Bo Wang
This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier.
Artist Shui-Bo Wang narrates this story of his family's life in China during the rise of the Maoist Communist regime and provides us with some stunningly detailed illustrations to accompany his history. Essentially this is a one-man documentary that highlights just how willingly the largely rural and illiterate population engaged in the ideas of freedom and wealth redistribution. Of their belief t...