One Child Nation (2019) User Reviews

THE PROPAGANDA IS IN THE REVIEWS.

[jonjon0406 · 8/10 · 24 April 2021]

Wow. It is a wild ride reading the comments here. There are some genuine ones that praise the documentary and those that point out its strengths and weaknesses and criticize them in articulately and poignantly.

Others still... are calling the movie itself a propaganda while trying to gaslight the documentarian. I'm seeing a lot of comments that go something like: "the one child policy was generally a bad thing, however [...]". However, what? It was a demented social 'experiment' to forcibly control the population by all means necessary which involved inhumane doctrine taking away civil liberty. There is no excuse. I can think of at LEAST one other major catastrophic event similar to this in our lifetime that attempted, and partially succeeded, at this. HMM.

It is explicitly stated that people are afraid to speak about specific events on camera because they do not want to become enemies of the state. It is crazy to me that people will sit here, completely removed from the world and the lives depicted on the documentary, and say "no, I don't think this actually happened." You don't have to look far to see articles upon articles on how sterilizations and abortions were forced in this era. It is factual. Denying this happened is tantamount to denying the Holocaust.

There are many reviews that claim that the documentarian is a hypocrite because she promotes autonomy over a woman's own body while denouncing forced abortions and sterilizations. These reviews liken a woman's choice to abort her fetus to state-regulated forced abortions. WHAT? Did I seriously read that correctly? There are really reviews here calling her a hypocrite and that a woman's choice to abort her fetus (whatever her reason may be) is just as bad as a state forcing it upon an unwilling woman.

I'm gonna call it like I see it - I think many of these reviews are propaganda from the Chinese government or sympathizers.

Damn if you don't, damn if you do

[sc-11528 · 7/10 · 9 November 2019]

There are always two side to a policy, however one need to understand the context which resulted in this "one child" policy. China was struggling to feed its people. Its either mass starvation or mass migration. In fact, many had left and these are the Chinese living all across South East Asia. Imagine there was no policy and the people did not leave. How many more millions would have died of starvation. So before anyone condemn this "one child" policy claiming that many unborn children aborted, think of the millions who could have died due to starvation. This story depict the evil of "one child" policy but there is another side of story that is untold.

Critique of the One-Child policy told through the people who lived it

[gabethurau · 8/10 · 18 November 2019]

To me, the One-Child policy made sense when I was younger and didn't know any better. Fix overpopulation and hearken Malthus by limiting household size. Easy, right? This wasn't America after all; individual liberties are fewer in Communist China...because...isn't it for the good of the collective and not the individual? To my understanding, most of the Chinese were just banding together and willingly sacrificing for their country.

The movie paints an entirely different picture. Yes, there were those believed they were rightful functioning as an extension of the Red policy. Yet, almost every single person that Wang interviews had to preface recollections of the forced sterilizations and abortions with four haunting words: "I had no choice."

This movie investigates the intersect between acting willfully for your country and its opposite: being forced to do what are considered "necessary evils" for the longevity of the country.

Wang is skeptical that any of this suffering needed to happen to begin with. She provides a counter-narrative to the Communist state, wondering if the mountains of abandoned girl babies were left to die in vain. In retrospect, the policy's dubious reasons point more towards a mindless allegiance to leadership than any saving grace from starvation. That's how the movie is presented, at least.

Definitely worth the watch.

This is an expertly and darkly real doc.

[JohnDeSando · 23 August 2019]

"As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the land of my ancestors, equal parts Aldous Huxley and King Herod." Mei Fong, One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment

Hearing about China's 1979 one-child policy, lasting 35 years, is one thing. Listening to Asians who lived through it is another. The logic of administrators, some of whom who appear in Nanfu Wang's informative and touching documentary, One Child Nation, almost make sense.

Then you realize who is abandoned and who abducted, mostly girls, and you grimace for them and the families who were torn apart by the rule. Assuredly the females had to go first when authorities discovered families with more than one child because the Asian tradition had always favored males.

Wang having been given a man's name (Nanfu translates into "man" and pillar") shows a deft hand at directing without preaching. She does what I find lacking in too many docs-the other side. Those supporting a one-child policy appear frequently praising it as the salvation of a billion people who would have starved or resorted to cannibalism without the population restraint.

The devastating effects cannot be hidden: babies left in baskets, twins separated forever, human trafficking on a grand scale are just a few of the disorders. Propaganda is always there to reinforce the state's message. Wang presents it all, both good and bad.

But like our dark slavery past or Nazi cleansing, heinous plans to control population never seem to survive. The trail, however, is bloody and harrowing.

Wang has expertly balanced between a depressing subject and an important history lesson: "Don't fool with Mother Nature."

Thought provoking and emotionally confronting

[Statler-Waldorf · 8/10 · 2 August 2019]

A deeply thought provoking and emotionally confronting look at some the people affected by, or tasked with enforcement of China's one child policy established in 1979. The narrative is mostly driven by the film maker's recollections of her experience, and interviews with her family and others in the area where she grew up.

Excellent film making, use of imagery, narration and examination of a number of different perspectives. Very sensitively approaching the subject, she was able to gently yet persuasively coax some truly shocking admissions of guilt from some of her interviewees. Be prepared for some awful images, but thankfully these scenes are not dwelt on for long as macabre voyeurism was not the intent, but to solidly make the point of what happened to many babies. The story told indicates that the one-child policy was implemented in a harsh, cruel, uncompromising and unforgiving way, although it seems the government eventually recognised the need to protect and find new homes via international adoption programmes for babies that were abandoned by their parents trying to avoid the harsh penalties that they would face.

The only criticism is that there is not much in the way of analysis of the reasons that led up to the point of the introduction of the policy in China. This was hinted at by interviews with her mother, but not much else. For an example of a country that should have, but hasn't introduced population control measures, take a look at India. There, they have well over 100 million people enduring appalling, squalid, miserable poverty and hundreds of millions more struggling daily to eke out a meagre existence. Religious dogma and lack of understanding about environmental impact regarding unrestrained human reproduction are at least partly to blame for the coming crisis of over-population in most parts of the world. If the human race is to avoid large scale wars over food, water and climate change induced migration in the next 30 years, then global population controls need to be carefully introduced and incentivised, but not the way the PRC did it. Seen at NZIFF Wellington by a parent of one child.

Thousands die, victims of the China's population war

[vicadamovich · 8/10 · 7 June 2019]

Like the film makers, most people I know of that generation are the one- child of the family. I never stopped to think of what might have happened to my friends' possible siblings. Or that their parents could have murdered, or given away their own babies. The shocking thing is how "ordinary" the perpetrators are. The 84 years old retired doctor who has killed thousands upon thousands of babies - a frail-looking grandma. The filmmakers' uncle who left his 2 day old daughter to die in the market. The fact that he recalls clearly that she would be 27 now, speaks volumes that he hasn't forgotten. The taxi drivers and garbage collectors who became baby traffickers.

How to make sense of 35 years of state-enforced killings. How does the ordinary citizen agree to kill in the name of the state - not the Japanese / Nationalists / Capitalists - but your own child, an unborn baby? Murder your niece, granddaughter, cousin?

The only answer I had from the movie was the artists' explanation. Decades of indoctrination (brain-washing). The self is not important. Only the collective, the state mattered. That ordinary folk had no choice, they had to kill, to do what the party/the state said to do.

Terrifying and real. Must see. Must understand.

China in a hundred years of war. From the 1911 Revolution, fighting the Japanese, the Civil War, the Cultural Revolution ending in 1979, then started the One-Child Policy, The internal war on population only ended in 2015. What was the death-toll? This time the casualties were women, babies and families.

I expected a broader perspective

[hongh · 6/10 · 27 April 2020]

I don't like Communist China and many of its policies, including one child policy. I have the same overall view as the documentary. However, to make a more powerful documentary, they should have applied more scientific storytelling method and interviewed people from broader range of background. Moreover, the film should have involved less of her family and relatives to make it more objective.

SFF2019, a policy should be review and questioned

[wmy-16468 · 8/10 · 18 June 2019]

SFF(Sydney Film Festival) 2019 Event Cinema, one child nation, as a Chinese, I thought I'm familiar enough with the policy, but I'm wrong. There are still so many things are hidden that I don't aware. And how cruel it is to be forced abortion. It's not about right or wrong, it's about humanity and the right to question. Everyone is innocent, everyone has no choice, everyone helps execute the policy.

Condemning propaganda while spreading its own

[Agentpie · 7/10 · 9 January 2020]

As a documentary it was very informative with insight from many that went through, enforced, and were victims of the one child policy. The film however did not take a bipartisan informative stance, which would allow viewers to form their own opinions. The filmmaker used a nations tragedy to promote her own ideas. The documentary focused on the tragedy of families having their babies killed, which the filmmaker managed to turn into a statement about how awful it was for Chinese women to not have a choice in the killing of their babies. She went further and said that the decision should be left to the mother. In other words, a dead baby under a bridge (as depicted in the film) is awful if the mother had no choice in the decision, however if it was her choice, a dead baby under a bridge is acceptable.

This opened eyes to what the government was doing to control the policy

[trbuntingu · 10/10 · 11 December 2019]

I knew that girl babies were more than likely abandoned or killed under the policy, but I never imagined them abducting babies to basically sell to people overseas. I find it crazy that people were arrested for human trafficking, yet the government was doing the same thing and the babies they sold were literally abducted from their families. I learned so much from this film and applaud all those involved with producing it. I also applaud those who are trying to help locate the adoptees.

a personal look at the impact

[ferguson-6 · 8/10 · 21 December 2019]

Greetings again from the darkness. Living in a free society means we get to make many of our own life decisions ... big ones and small. Of course, those decisions are best if managed within generally accepted societal norms. Most of us can't even imagine living under the rule of a government that controls something as personal as the number of kids we can have in our family. Well, in 1979 China imposed a "one child" policy. It stood for more than three decades, until 2015. Filmmakers Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang give us an insider's glimpse of the effects of this policy by talking to the folks who lived through it.

Ms. Wang was born in China and moved to the U.S. Having recently had a baby, she decided to return to her birth country and explore the effects of the policy under which she was born. The social experiment and restrictive policy was instituted out of desperation for a country whose population was booming, yet the economy and food supply were a mess. She shows us the propaganda that was seemingly everywhere - from artwork on neighborhood walls to television shows. The approach was to make people think this was their patriotic duty, and that one child was the idyllic life.

What has never been discussed or studied was the dark side of what the policy meant. It was a system that encouraged boys and downgraded girls. To Ms. Wang's credit, she interviews those on both sides of the policy - those who believe it was necessary and prevented over-population, and those who tell the horror stories of families torn apart, babies abandoned, and the secretive human trafficking that occurred. It's quite devastating to hear these people discuss the personal impact.

The film is autobiographical in nature, in that Ms. Wang is our narrator, often appears on camera, and even interviews her own family members - both to personalize the story and to educate herself. Hearing the story of her grandfather stepping in to prevent sterilization of Nanfu's mother is incredible. We learn she later had a son who became the favored child within the family. And yes, we get details ... very specific details ... on the forced sterilizations and abortions that occurred. One doctor takes credit for 'tens of thousands' of abortions and sterilizations, which Ms. Wang effectively contrasts with America's ever-increasingly restrictive abortion policies. These are the two extremes in preventing women's control of their own bodies.

No top government officials are interviewed, but the implications are quite clear. We even learn of the Utah organization Research-China that researches Asian children adopted during this era, often with the adoptive parents unaware of what was happening in China. We even learn of a set of twins who were separated at birth - one raised in the U.S., the other in China. They have never met. Ms. Wang is quite effective as a documentarian-journalist. Though the film lacks any attempt at style points, the details are astounding. She even shows how the Chinese government transitioned from 'one child' to marketing the benefits of a "two child" household, and how the propaganda machine kicked in. This film is all about impact, and it will deliver a gut-punch.

Informative doc proves there are no easy answers in solving Chinese overpopulation problem

[Turfseer · 7/10 · 20 November 2019]

Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's informative documentary on the now-defunct Chinese one child policy between 1979 and 2015, fails to answer an inherent question regarding the necessity of implementing such a policy. It's Wang's own family members who lived through that time, who maintain that if the one child policy had not been implemented, the overpopulation problem would have resulted in outright cannibalism, as food stocks would no longer be available to meet even minimal demand.

The filmmakers argue however, that the implementation of the policy was a disaster and they chronicle, in scenes of horror, why this was so. Late term abortions occurred everywhere (particularly in rural areas); a now exiled photographer took photos of hundreds of fetuses discarded in dumpsters which Wang and Zhang have no hesitation in showing on screen.

There is an interview with a woman who conducted thousands of these abortions and mass sterilizations during the time the policy was in effect. A male government official recounts how he observed women being beaten who resisted the mass sterilizations.

Even more troubling is the cultural bias against the female child which the filmmakers depict. Even Wang's own uncle confesses how he left a newborn daughter to die in a marketplace. Exceptions were made to allow for a second child in the event that the first child was female-in the hope that the mother would produce a son on the second try (Wang's own enlightened brother expresses grief over his favored status).

Soon child traffickers got the idea it would be more profitable to scoop up abandoned infants (particularly females) and drop them off at orphanages for cash, as they could then be sold on the international adoption market for prices ranging from $10K to $25K. The trafficking occurred with the full collusion of the Chinese government, whose minions profited greatly.

One Child Nation ends with a Chinese-American couple attempting to reunite adopted children in the US with their biological parents in China through DNA analysis. Their efforts have been stymied by quite a number of children (now largely young adults) who have no interest in learning the nature of their origins.

This is a fascinating film but again is the filmmakers' outrage misplaced? If China had no choice in implementing the policy, it would only be natural that there would be resistance from a populace used to thousands of years of cultural practice. Could the Chinese government have handled things better? Without a doubt. But one can extrapolate from the film, that there are no easy answers in solving such an explosive societal conundrum.

Great theme, poor execution, wasted opportunity

[rmgaspar-49er · 4/10 · 2 January 2020]

I was always fascinated by the theme, and it deserves treatment. But documentaries are not supposed to be propaganda, explore just one angle, reinforce its purpose for 90 minutes. Things I have NOT found here:

• When/how was the policy created?
• What happened to China's population and economy during its tennure?
• Could the same reasoning have generated a better execution of a similar process? In a democratic country?
• Any similar experiences to compare? Is population control in general important these days? Or did the China policy buried it?
• Any idea of how China would be today with 8 billion people? The good. The bad.

I definitely 'learned' that life is important, killing babies is bad, totalitarian governments opressing the population is dirty, China has a gender equality problem (already agreed with all that) and...a few other obvious points. Not really bad, but short of one would I expect of a doc awarded at Sundance and shortlisted for the Oscars.

Consequences of a lost generation

[thenextrushmagazine · 8/10 · 7 October 2019]

The opening scenes are a display of national pride in great showmanship staged by Government officials and we don't fully understand the breadth of this sentiment or its purpose until later in the film.

It confronts the officials directly in charge of enforcing the policy, it illustrates a bewildering sense of helplessness felt by the citizens of this communist state and it uncovers some of the most chilling consequences in which opportunities for human trafficking that emerged.

We follow Nanfu, who now lives in the US and retraces her rural Chinese history with her inner circle of family and locals of her village uncovering fraud, corruption and kidnapping of some of the 130,000 babies sold to international adoption agencies.

It's a chilling account on the systematic installment of medical teams nationwide whose soul purpose was to enforce the one child policy. There's an emotional distress throughout the film with confronting images of 8 month old fetuses in medical waste bags in garbage heaps as a result of forced abortions and we're told about the dire situation of hunger and scarce resources of Nanfu's father's generation and her grandfather before him in an attempt to justify it. Had it not been for the One Child Policy we're told this would have been worse for Nanfu's generation. Unless there is a real genuine understanding of poverty for the viewer, we wrestle with the real essence of the film and the differences in socio-economies and culture. Pro one child defenders explain that their life at that time was about survival not about fulfillment. The difference between those two things to put the national interest before personal feelings is equated to war.

Babies were dumped on the roadside, abandoned in streets and marketplaces out of fear of going against the status quo and this opened the door for China to join the International Adoption program and profit from those children. Recruiting networks of doctors, midwives, public transport drivers and ordinary people were established, paid anywhere between US$100-$200 to procure abandoned babies for orphanages who would profit between US$10000-$20000 per adoption. This lucrative business led to the kidnapping of children in defenseless poverty stricken rural towns. More than 130,000 babies have been put up for adoption internationally with many that were not actually abandoned during the period of the one child policy completely unaware of their history and lineage.

It's a devastating story that now sees China with not enough young workers to contribute to the economy and care for the elders. Their new policy now encourages multiple births. There is a strong sense of denial from enforcers and victims and this documentary preserves the memory of a generation lost and who were denied their dignity merely being discarded.

The One Child policy lasted for 35 years (1979-2015), the questions that are now being asked by the people weren't asked by their parents and while it does answer many, we are still left wondering why!

Touched deeply

[yettaran · 9/10 · 11 November 2019]

Rough shots and nak*d history bring me back to the dark time.

Communism 101

[madwand6 · 6/10 · 5 July 2021]

Watch and learn. This is what you get when 1/7 of the earth's population sit back and do nothing except be indoctrinated. You get the government you deserve. As for the kids who are sold off to adoption, I'm not sure what the complaint is. At least they don't have to be communists any more. I found it odd that Josef Mengele (the Angel of Death) was "just following orders" and the lady who admitted to killing 60,000 babies said the same thing. Communists have no value for human life.

Good history lesson for all of us

[ceefriday · 8/10 · 22 November 2019]

This movie sparked all my emotions. To hear people talk about humans like they were just trash to be discarded, was very soul sucking. This is an invaluable tool for teens to get a glimpse of Communism. I was very disappointed that after this journey, Nanfu still doesn't uphold the sanctity of human life. She has moved on to America and has also allowed herself to be brainwashed with "my body, my choice". After all she has discovered, I really thought she would believe in the sacredness of all human life.

An interesting and personal look into an issue many of us probably haven't given much thought

[Jeremy_Urquhart · 7/10 · 23 January 2020]

I began to love the documentary as an art-form much more when I realised that they're less about presenting basic facts, and more about presenting ideas, personal (and often subjective) stories, and visually depicted arguments/opinions. Therefore, I'd never mark a documentary down for being biased, unless perhaps that bias presented a clearly dangerous or insensitive message to its audience.

I say all this because One Child Nation is not aiming to be an "objective" or strictly factual documentary (very few documentaries do, in my opinion, and I believe that's a common misconception which I should nevertheless shut up about now). In just under 90 minutes, director and host/narrator Nanfu Wang provides a succinct and effective history of China's one child policy, before spending most of the documentary interviewing those who lived under and were affected by it. As a result, the documentary does not have a particularly strong through-line, in my opinion, nor a great sense of pacing, as the feeling of going from one subject to another (occasionally linking them effectively) does result in an episodic feel.

There is also a noticeable way in which some of these segments are more interesting than others- One Child Nation is at its most interesting and heartbreaking when Wang focuses in on her family, asking them why they went along with the one child policy and pulling surprisingly few punches. There is also the horrific stories given by an artist who tried to bring attention to the mistreatment of discarded babies through his disturbing photography and artwork. A whole film could have been given to either of these 'segments,' though in the former's case, I could understand how taxing that would be as a filmmaker to interrogate your own family that much, and with the latter, I could see that being too gruesome an angle to spend an entire feature length documentary on.

The lack of flow, solid but not quite incredible conclusion, and occasional repetition are the only slights I have here, and I know I've spent an unfair amount of this review on them. For the most part, this is a very engaging and oftentimes very sad, even hopeless documentary about an entire nation of people being oppressed and manipulated, even to the point where most of the older generations are shown to still believe the one child policy was a good thing. As the documentary goes out of its way to depict, this was not the case, as the sheer number of stories and statistics regarding children being discarded (particularly if a couple had a girl as their only child, as they were seen as less desirable within the culture, being unable to properly 'pass' the family name on) is enough to convince anyone with half a functioning heart that no, this policy was not a decent or ethical one. There are reasons some thought it sensible, but the human cost can't be ignored here, and this documentary succeeded in making me reflect on that, and wonder why I hadn't really thought about the implications of this now retired policy before, despite knowing full well that it had existed.

Good documentaries often provoke and force you to open your eyes and properly think about issues you may not have known existed, or otherwise did not give the time and thought they might have deserved. One Child Nation, despite an imperfect execution, succeeds on this front, and as such I can easily recommend it to documentary fans who are okay with some upsetting subject material. It was shocking and thought-provoking, without feeling manipulative or exploitative, and was well worth the 90 minute running time.

Must See Cautionary Tale

[brendaniforth · 8/10 · 22 August 2019]

Yes, this film makes a clear case for the serious consequences that happen when paternalistic societies fail to value and provide equal rights for women. Whether it's rabid anti-choice proponents in America who clearly feel that individual women should be denied the right to make reproductive decisions for themselves, or Chinese communist authorities who perpetuate the party line to force abortions and sterilization, the losers are always women and all of society. We all need to learn this lesson and this film makes this point in a devastating and personal way.

Very powerful

[MarcoParzivalRocha · 7/10 · 19 January 2021]

A human and emotional look at the one-child policy in China, which ran from 1979 to 2015.

Nanfu Wang returned to China shortly after being a mother ( she lives in the USA), to make this documentary, where she focused on the population of her native village and in the surrounding regions.

What I found especially interesting here was the fact that Wang created a narrative that is not just focused on attacking and numbering the consequences of this measure, but rather seeing the perspective of those who were forced to enforce the policy. Generations that have been lost, crimes and the consequent profit (child trafficking), people living with psychological scars, decades after the events, meetings and disappointments, almost everything is dissected in this documentary, in a serious way and with no intention of romanticizing the situation.

Won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2019.

Insightful

[asadkhan0810 · 8/10 · 20 January 2020]

The documentary on China's One-Child Nation leaves you numb and forces you to think to what extent humans can go for their desires. China has been able to control its population to a large extent which would've had a huge impact on its economy and maybe it wouldn't have been here today where it is but at what cost? It's a difficult question and makes you speechless.

The movie is very insightful and brings the topic to the discussion which wasn't the case. It's truly a must-watch.

Limited scope

[tohbe · 6/10 · 25 February 2021]

The film is a good piece to showcase the problematic implimentation of the policy, while its title seems to suggest a much broader analysis of the policy itself. There is zero interview with academics in China or overseas to discuss the impact of the policy in broader terms on financial, social, national, international scales.

Riveting though only one side of the story with prejudice

[sun_jot · 3/10 · 30 August 2019]

Riveting though it seems the documentary focuses on only one side of the story. And blaming a lot problems on one-child policy is simply not right.

1. Gender balance. Before the one child policy people tend keep giving birth unless there is a boy. Decision making affects the rate too. That's why my father had 5 sisters 1 brother and my mother has 3 sisters and 1 brother. You do the math. That contributes to the balance but it's not that kind of balance you really want. After the one-child, it is mainly abortion that reverts the ratio although China had strict laws forbidden people check gender fetus during the one child policy.

2. Abandonment. Children were abandoned in rural areas of China. Parents tend to keep boys and abandon girls. It has been that for centuries maybe. It was mainly due to the fact that the family does not have enough resources to feed everyone. The doc did not mention the children death rate before the one-child policy. My father had 6 siblings and that does not include 4 were dead from suffering illness in early age. Giving up a girl was a way to keep the family alive and yes it is very wrong. People should have just stopped giving births to that many children (male can be workers and bring fortune in old time China). The was less abandonment due to that reason after the policy. Also note that abandonment happened but it was not anyway close to a norm.

3. Forced abortion. The law strictly forbids forcing abortion during one child policy. The documentary does not mention that yet brings some voices to force an impression. If you notice, a lot of the voices are from the narratives or started with " I heard.." There has been forced abortions in the past 40 years in a singular digit reported and were deemed wrong and crimeful even in China. If you search BBC reports, you find that "there was not enough evidence to support it". I do believe there has been cases of forced abortion. The people who work at the local office used extreme means to guarantee a job and that action was very wrong.

3. Twins count as one birth it's not against the policy so in the movie the girl talked about how she got separated from her twin sister. It's entirely irrelevant to the one-child policy.

4. GDP in China now is 80 times that in 1979 when the one- child policy started 40 years ago.

5. There will be other issues like lack of medical resources and abandonment without the one child policy. One child policy is like a two sided blade. Without the policy, China would have added 300 million people in population and that's almost the entire population of the states. Poverty was imminent.

I am not trying to speak up for the one child policy. I was born in 1980s just like the director herself. While wishing that I had a brother or sister, I grew up without noticing any change to our lives caused by the policy. We were the happy generation because we witnessed the tremendous improvement in our life. Now my wife and I (without any siblings) have four parents and two kids to take care of and that's a lot of pressure. We sometimes need cousins to help on looking after our parents when we are away. That's the biggest impact if you ask us as the generation of one-child. But one child policy is already in the past, isn't it?

Best doc of 2019. Intense and important

[ngerstein · 10/10 · 27 November 2019]

Everyone should watch this. This is Nazi-level human rights atrocities. Is there any accountability to be had?

Important to see, but difficult to digest

[bethjazotte-60931 · 8/10 · 29 May 2021]

Se você, como eu, sabia pouco sobre a política chinesa de "um filho por família" que vigeu por 35 anos (até 2015) deve assistir esse documentário. Mas previno que tem que ter coragem: partiu meu coração... Na Amazon.

If you, like me, knew little about the Chinese "one child per family" policy that has been in place for 35 years (until 2015) you should watch this documentary. But I warn you that you have to have courage: it broke my heart ... At Amazon. #amazonprimevideo.