Zhua zhuang ding

⭐ Featured Review

"The literal translation of the title of this movie is: drafting the conscripts by force. This movie paints an accurate picture of how the nationalist army get their soldiers in the pre-revolutionary era China. There really is not much political propaganda in this movie and everything is exactly as it had happened in real life. However, audience are easily fooled if they believe that this is not a political propaganda, the trick is Time, i.e., the time it was released. This movie was made in 1963, the last year of massive famine which was the direct result of Mao's disastrous Great Leap..."