Portrait of a Fanatic (1982)
- Original title
- 苦戀
- Directed by
- Wang Toon
- Genre
- Drama
- Country
- Taiwan
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This period film follows a patriotic Chinese painter from the 1930s to the 1970s. He faces wartime bombings by Japan, assassinations by the Nationalist government, and persecution during the Cultural Revolution. His life spans decades of political turmoil in both mainland China and the United States.
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What happens
Portrait of a Fanatic is a 1982 Taiwanese period film directed by Wang Toon, adapted by Wu Nien-jen from Bai Hua's 1980 screenplay, which was first made into a film in mainland China that quickly received a ban there on orders of Deng Xiaoping himself. Part of China's scar literature, Bai Hua's story is set in mainland China and the United States. It follows the turbulent life of a patriotic Chinese painter from the 1930s to the 1970s, as he escapes Japan's bombings during the Second Sino-Japanese War, assassinations by the repressive Nationalist government during the Chinese Civil War, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the horrors of the Cultural Revolution when millions of intellectuals and artists were cruelly persecuted on trumped-up charges. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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