Blue Kite
Lan feng zheng (1993)

This movie about the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural 
Revolution in China was meant to be reactionary and in that 
context, it's a pretty good film. This movie is good for 
Maoists to see. It is important that people realize that 
the Cultural Revolution was not perfect, but that it did a 
lot to advance the struggle against liberalism. In the 
context of study about Chinese history and what really 
happened, this film could be informative. But if you have 
not studied up on the Cultural Revolution and do not yet 
know why the people were encouraged to criticize their 
leaders, you would be better off sending $8 to MIM for a 
copy of Jean Daubier's book, *The History of the Chinese 
Cultural Revolution*, rather than seeing this misleading 
movie.