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Eternal Spring (2022)
Impactful movie under unfortunate attack
Combining personal memory and artistic imagination, Loftus and Daxiong created an ingenious way to document a piece of violently suppressed history, which can only be conjured by recalling the past traumas of those who experienced it. The obvious IMDB anomaly of the overwhelming one-star reviews says much about the intentional defamation launched by those who fear its momentous impact and feel that the movie too must be suppressed. But this gives us all the more reason to see it, and to be aware of and informed about the unspeakable atrocities that have been taking place in Mainland China.
Certainly, a fuller explanation of the historical background of Falun Gong and its persecution would prepare the audience better for the main narrative story. But the movie serves its purpose as a point of departure that leads to our troubling realization of the multiplicity of moral and humanitarian crisis that has faced Chinese society, in 2002 as it does today, as well as our reflection of what the world can or should do in face of injustice, injury and pain.