Talk:To Live (1994 film)

More on...
I think that there should be a bit more on the banning of this movie from mainland China. It could be a good paragraph. Just a thought.

Goaliemaster121 22:25, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I just finished reading the novel (in English translation). It is considerably darker than the film. I've started working on a page for the novel, and a list of differences between the novel and the film.

dedrick 03:11, 01 May 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:30, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Plot or Synopsis?
Should the title of the first section be plot or synopsis? Most other articles use plot, but I think synopsis is also appropriate. Could someone check this out? --75.58.114.40 (talk) 01:04, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Bit of plot missing
There's a bit missing from the plot synopsis. One paragraph reads:

One day a while later, while Fengxia and Youqing are sleeping, several of Youqing's classmates come by to tell him that they have to go to school now, since the District Chief is coming. Still sleepy, Fugui carries him there, despite his wife wishing to let him sleep, since he hasn't been able to sleep well in weeks.

Then the next paragraph reads:

At the gravesite of the boy, his mother leaves for him a lunchbox of 20 stale dumplings, which were intended as his lunch for school that day, plus 20 newly made dumplings. Chunsheng arrives at the grave, but his attempts to apologize and compensate the family are rebuffed, with Jiazhen declaring that he owed them a life.

Clearly we need a bit in the middle to reference what has happened to the boy. There are references later on to say that he has been killed, but I haven't seen to film in years so can't remember exactly happened 77.247.11.82 (talk) 11:13, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

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To add to article
Basic information to add to this article: in which province of China this film is set. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 23:04, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

What is the Facts Section?
The facts section of this page seems pretty unnecessary and misleading. It’s just a summary of a few points by Rey Chow (a famous film critic). Maybe the section could stay, but it would probably be better off being title “Interpretations of the film” and maybe have a couple different authors scholarship included too? It just seems very weird and jarring. Also, the last point in that section about the Tiananmen Square Massacre breaks from the typical writing style a bit, it’s pretty dramatic and that odd and out of place dramatic writing is pretty jarring.

Censorship section
The section on censorship says that Zhang Yimou and Gong Li were both banned from filmmaking for two years, but they both have multiple credits during those years. One of the links mentions this ban, but it's from a local Arizona newspaper and written by some English professor hosting a movie night, so I'm fairly certain that doesn't count as a reliable source.