Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Desert Bloom...
...Desert Bloom is a perfect example of a not particularly movie. It's a not particularly funny, not particularly sad, not particularly moving, not particularly artistic, not particularly good movie. Nor is it particularly...
Strangely enough, you could not really call Desert Bloom bad, because it really isn't. It's just inconsequential. This film falls under the heading of "sweet," perhaps the worst praise a movie can use to advertise itself. And there's something annoying about dramatic movies that take themselves too seriously and don't come to a good dramatic conclusion. You spend two hours watching the drama of this movie unfold, but you're still left with only half a movie...
...Desert Bloom...
...tung's infamous 1956 Hundred Flowers campaign to urge intellectuals to produce new ideas. Still, many Chinese are understandably leery of the Double Hundred campaign, as it is called. They have not forgotten how Mao first lured scholars into exposing their views--"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend"--and then purged those who opposed his policies. One victim of the 1956 campaign was Writer Wang Meng, whom Mao purged as an "antisocialist" and sent into internal exile for 24 years. Deng's new Minister of Culture: none other than Wang Meng, who was appointed...