Recently I've been very patriotic. I guess we Chinese people just are, especially when we stay abroad, in my case, even 4 days count...look what have happened to me! All day long I'm blabing about China China.
This is Chung Kuo - Cina, a documentary of China by Michelangelo Antonioni made in 1972. During the cultural revolution Chinese government sent an invitation to Antonioni to make a film about China. And this is definitely one of the earliest documentaries of real China, as no foreign director was allowed to enter China at such a time. The idea was to choose a global-famed director to tell the world what goodness was happening in China. Yet when the film was completed, Antonioni's masterpiece was detained and boycotted both in Europe and China for his unbiased, probably over vague political point of view. In his words, he wanted to use the camera as the objective eye of a tourist.
It is still hard to believe this was China (this was the China where my parents were brought up to) 30 years ago. It's not even a long time...but look what would be changed had been changed!
To view the film, click on the name of documentary above. And be patient to finish it - slow - is always Antonioni's style. :-)
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