Itchy - If you can't think for yourself, I can't think for you. However from what you write, you seem the perfect BNP candidate and no doubt they have your vote.
Everton - Sorry, last post, was thinking about film in more depth yesterday and I figure that because the woman's character was quite obsessive in her love that contrasted with his mysterious character and lack of information regarding his activities but yet subtly drew upon the effect of Communist Rule on the everyday life of the ordinary Chinese person.
Watching the film I felt frustrated at this intrusion of Communism on their lives and I suppose the criticism of Mao would lie here. But I thought it was more stated than expressly criticized as there was an absence of positive individual change in the people - other narrations were missing in this respect.
Actually the youth were leaving the villages for the cities and even the son it seemed had a distant relationship with his parents. It was quite sad the son never followed in his father's footsteps as a teacher although he had completed a teacher training....Just some thoughts sorry.