![]() Though Maoist political authorities make only brief appearances here, their influence is as ubiquitous as that of Orwell’s Big Brother. ![]() ![]() The missing member of the family is Lu (Chen Daoming), a former college professor who has been sent to a labor camp. But rather than comprehend it, she simply lives it.ĭirector Zhang Yimou’s film, a poignant tale of suffering under the nonfictional dictatorship of Mao Zedong, is basically a domestic melodrama set during the Cultural Revolution in a provincial Chinese city, where Wanyu (Gong Li), a schoolteacher, lives with her teenage daughter, Dandan (Zhang Huiwen). The fictional protagonist of George Orwell’s “1984,” Winston Smith, comes to a stark realization after enduring the book’s tortures: “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” In the movie “ Coming Home,” the heroine arrives at a similar conclusion.
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