“To Live” Youtube video Review

In the first clip, what is happening in 1949?

Chang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist Army is losing the civil war

The communists under Mao Zedong are poised to

Take over china

What were the two men advised to do in the first clip

If they did not fight the reds they’d have to fight the KMT

What is found all over the place in the clip?

Dead bodies

What did the men use to keep themselves warm in the clip?

The clothes off the dead people’s bodies

After a night of drinking, the place is

Deserted

What does this mean for men that the place is deserted

That the reds must be on attack

If they run now, they’ll be..

Shot

What are they advised to do if the reds come?

To raise their hands up so they can become POWS and return home.

In the second clip, who returns home?

Only one of the remaining soldiers

What song would they sing during the war?

The liberation song

What was the daughter’s condition and what did it cause?

She ran a high fever and lost her voice

What was the wife given as a job in the second clip?

Delivering water

Who pays the family a visit in the second clip?

The towns leader

What did the soldier serve in?

The liberation army/ revolution

Where did the companion go from the film?

He joined the army as a driver and went south

What happened in the second clip that is talked about between the towns leader and the couple?

Someone refused to give up part of their house to the government, and therefore he beat up a cadre and set he place on fire

What appears next in scene of the second clip?

An execution is taking place with a mob-like scene chanting “Long live Chairman Mao!” And “Down with the counterrevolutionaries!” and “Build a new china!”

What was the man’s name that was being executed?

Long’er

5 shots were shot during the scene that killed Long’er. T or F?

True

In the third clip, the couple is met by two men looking for?

Fengxia

To discuss over what between the two?

An arranged marrriage

Who was Fengxia arranged to marry?

A red guard named Erxi

The couple was alerted with an alarm of redguards damaging their house and removing the tiles from the house and leaving it there as dissatisfaction towards the arranged proposal. T or F?

False, when the couple returned home they were only remodeling the house with the help of Fengxia

In the 4th clip what is being talked about between the couple and a friend?

The person being talked to was convicted to be a capitalist and must pay for his crimes

What else takes place in the scene, during the third clip?

Fengxia is going into labor and the parents go there to support her

Who is there present during the hospital scene that they couple notice?

There are only young nurses and no older doctor figures to support Fengxia

What does Fengxia husband take into action, during the third clip?

He plans the retrieve one male doctor to bring in support of Fengxia’s birth and for his mother and father law’s worries to be cleared.

Who has taken the older male doctors into custody?

The red guards

The doctor hasn’t been fed in over

3 days

And the father of Fengxia would go out to fetch the doctor some buns. T or F?

True

What name does the couple decide on for fengxia’s child?

“Little bun”

Why do they decide on this name?

So that it wouldn’t go under as a registered name to cause any trouble

What happens to Fengxia in the final clip?

She passes ways due to internal bleeding

What type of source would this documentary be considered under?

As a primary source