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Good Intentions Can't Save 'The Children of Huang Shi' from a Bad Script

By Richard von Busack
Metro Silicon Valley | May 29, 2008
One gets the sense of the Chinese government looking over the script with a magnifying lens. The commissars are less likely to be embarrassed by the way this film scrubs up the murderous politics of the war era than they ought to be embarrassed by the script.
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