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Dialogue: Feng Xiaogang's movie 'Youth' ignites debate about heroism, patriotism

4,315 views · Published 28 September 2017 · 29:08 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: CGTN · 2017 · News & Politics

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Chinese movies are struggling to survive with both competition from Hollywood and domestic policy scrutiny. The latest online debate about the release of Youth, a movie by Feng Xiaogang about wartime romance, went viral overnight. The movie is a love story within an army art troop, against the backdrop of a border clash between China and Vietnam in 1979. It brings up the question of: How shall we look at issues of heroism, patriotism and the appeal of humanity in the dark days of the so-called "Cultural Revolution", and during the period of social transformation?

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