今天我们请芝加哥的女导演和她的女儿来中北大学。她的电影是关于中国的历史。它让我知道中国的很多事情，我也知道更多中国人是什么样子。
The members of the Naperville Community, students, and faculty of North Central College gathered in Smith Hall for a showing of Mulberry Child. The guests of Honor, the producer and her daughter, sat in the front row, greeting people who recognized them, smiling and looking around at the growing crowd. There were not enough seats in the hall, so many audience members stole some chairs from outside of the room, and others began to stand in a crowd in the back. There was bewilderment on some of the student’s faces who came, not sure what they had just stepped into. Some students came as an extra credit assignment from their teachers, some with little knowledge of what would be shown that night. Members of the Chinese community made up the largest percent of audience members, most probably more aware of what a great honor it was to get to be in the same room as the author of the book Mulberry Child, the same woman who produced the movie rendition of it.
The evening commenced with a word from my Chinese teacher, welcoming the guests of honor. Then, the lights went out, the screen turned on, and the movie began, still with a large crowd standing in the back of the room. The movie portrayed two lives affected by the Cultural Revolution in China. One was the life of the author’s mother, showing the Chinese cultures of marriage and foot binding, how communism became popular, and how Mao’s plans destroyed their family for many years. The other life was the life of the author and her daughter in Chicago. The dissonance between the mother and daughter was apparent, and maybe even only slightly changed by the daughter’s reactions to the book her mother wrote about her life growing up, knowing the hardships of her grandmother, who she had only seen a few times.
After the movie was done, the author of the book and her daughter addressed the audience and answered questions.
I feel it was one of the most important things I have done all year. I have always been very confused and not very well informed on what happened with this Mao character I had always heard about. I have always been very ignorant about the goings-on in China; politics, culture, anything. This documentary and meeting the author and her daughter really changed a lot of things for me. For one, it inspired me to learn more about the Cultural Revolution, and Mao’s dictatorship, as there was so much that went into it, and I am still very confused on many things.
I’m very excited to buy Mulberry Child, the book, and get reading!
I feel very honored to have been able to meet the woman who wrote the book and produced the movie. When they first arrived in the room, I had no idea who they were, and I could only guess that they were the guests of honor. I really had no idea what to expect. When I looked up the book online, the summary truly did not do what I saw any justice, and only scratched the surface of all that the book, and the movie, has within it. They had so much to share, and the bond they grew, that I saw only in person, not so much in the movie, inspired me too to try and be closer with my mother.
The members of the Naperville Community, students, and faculty of North Central College gathered in Smith Hall for a showing of Mulberry Child. The guests of Honor, the producer and her daughter, sat in the front row, greeting people who recognized them, smiling and looking around at the growing crowd. There were not enough seats in the hall, so many audience members stole some chairs from outside of the room, and others began to stand in a crowd in the back. There was bewilderment on some of the student’s faces who came, not sure what they had just stepped into. Some students came as an extra credit assignment from their teachers, some with little knowledge of what would be shown that night. Members of the Chinese community made up the largest percent of audience members, most probably more aware of what a great honor it was to get to be in the same room as the author of the book Mulberry Child, the same woman who produced the movie rendition of it.
The evening commenced with a word from my Chinese teacher, welcoming the guests of honor. Then, the lights went out, the screen turned on, and the movie began, still with a large crowd standing in the back of the room. The movie portrayed two lives affected by the Cultural Revolution in China. One was the life of the author’s mother, showing the Chinese cultures of marriage and foot binding, how communism became popular, and how Mao’s plans destroyed their family for many years. The other life was the life of the author and her daughter in Chicago. The dissonance between the mother and daughter was apparent, and maybe even only slightly changed by the daughter’s reactions to the book her mother wrote about her life growing up, knowing the hardships of her grandmother, who she had only seen a few times.
After the movie was done, the author of the book and her daughter addressed the audience and answered questions.
I feel it was one of the most important things I have done all year. I have always been very confused and not very well informed on what happened with this Mao character I had always heard about. I have always been very ignorant about the goings-on in China; politics, culture, anything. This documentary and meeting the author and her daughter really changed a lot of things for me. For one, it inspired me to learn more about the Cultural Revolution, and Mao’s dictatorship, as there was so much that went into it, and I am still very confused on many things.
I’m very excited to buy Mulberry Child, the book, and get reading!
I feel very honored to have been able to meet the woman who wrote the book and produced the movie. When they first arrived in the room, I had no idea who they were, and I could only guess that they were the guests of honor. I really had no idea what to expect. When I looked up the book online, the summary truly did not do what I saw any justice, and only scratched the surface of all that the book, and the movie, has within it. They had so much to share, and the bond they grew, that I saw only in person, not so much in the movie, inspired me too to try and be closer with my mother.
I feel that, when someone watches the movie, there will be
something for everyone to get out of the movie. For girls, it is something to
be watched with your mother. For everyone and anyone else, this is a movie to be
watched at all in general. It will give you an understanding into a culture
that is growing in their relationships in America, and a history that should
not be forgotten.(He Jing)
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