Overall, To Live, was an incredible film; it allowed me (as someone who cannot fully understand what Fugui and Jiazhen’s life was truly like) to somewhat comprehend just how brutal and emotionally taxing their lives were during this period.
One question that I had after watching the film: How did the government determine whether or not a person had acted out against them? What constituted an act of “treason” and how severe does the act have to be before it was recognized as a crime?