okay so tell me about China Cry
okay
okay China Cry was basically the the true story written by this this lady who had uh
was a native is native Chinese uh
uh who was raised by Christian parents and her her time frame was prior to the nineteen forty nine revolution
um-hum
i see
although she herself had never really
accepted Jesus or gone through any of the other uh Christian uh
portions of of the faith repentance baptisms et cetera et cetera she had always felt a very strong uh
leaning in this direction and whenever the cultural revolution of nineteen forty nine occurred
and most churches were either banned or their all the clergy and so forth were ah killed or or imprisoned or and the property confiscated
she was safe because she had you know not officially joined the the Christian movement
um-hum
so
anyway she as she grew up towards maturity her parents well her dad was a doctor and and he was rather well you know rather well to do in the old regime
and the the China the communist the communist Chinese didn't like this at all
you know the bourgeoisie was was was definitely out of uh style then
right
everybody was back to a commonality of one
and so they kept picking at him picking at his at her mother
and uh finally
uh started picking on her
uh-huh
and getting her to you know they were starting to uh
accuse her of of of uh
crimes and atrocities before the the revolution and and had her write her own story over and over and over
uh and the uh the major point of the movie was that that she had
uh married this this Chinese fellow
and was with child when they started this mass court now i think i'm leaving out a portion she graduated she went through college and graduated
very high up in her class and had uh gotten a job as as an instructor and they had her teaching or were starting to have her teach history for the soldiers
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when the they decided that that she needed to start recanting of all of her pre uh regime crimes as it were being a child you know so
uh-huh
they kept on and on at at her and in the meantime she and her husband uh were expecting expecting were expecting a child their own child
and uh the the people kept harassing her over you know over a period of months and finally
they uh carried her
uh out into the courtyard to to either really to shoot her or to go through the motions of of
shooting her uh with by firing or you know executing her by firing squad and uh the Lord just said no this is not going to happen even though this lady has not really
um-hum
you know she's she's one of mine she is not going to die and um
the the the soldiers were blinded when they shot
hm
and she her life was spared
and this this frightened the the uh
the commandant and so he called this kind of stuff off and just put her in the labor camp
huh
well uh
and course here's this this woman who is heavy with child dragging rocks around
huh
well she she put in for
going in going to uh and her husband had escaped to Hong Kong uh and then she put in to go see him
and over time she uh uh finally through her perseverance and writing enough letters to enough different people embarrassed enough of the the middle
uh bureaucracy bureaucracy that they finally let her go
huh
and of course she had to walk you know they they stripped her of everything practically besides the the clothes on her back and uh so she so she went across the border to her husband and another and other child that they'd already had
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uh to freedom
oh
and they knew that she wasn't going to come back but yeah she did years later when the uh liberalization you know in real life uh liberalization of China happened and uh she was not persecuted or anything else like that
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huh interesting story
yes it was uh very moving too
i uh i don't even remember seeing that advertised and it was probably here and gone fairly quickly
well it was within oh
ninety days
oh that recent
yeah no i mean it's it was it was advertised over a period of about ninety days
oh i see what you mean
but it wasn't uh they didn't have it in uh
too awfully many movie houses but it was it was in the it had large uh uh
uh press release
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well uh i guess what i what i saw most recently and luckily i saw it only a week ago so i'd remember remember it well was um sort of light by comparison uh
okay
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my husband and i had this great desire to go see a comedy and
and uh we ended up going to see Green Card
Green Card
Green Card and and uh
uh-huh
he chose it and uh it's got this wonderful French actor who's
it was his like his and he's been a star in France and a wonderful actor who we've enjoyed for years
but he's never made an American film this was his American film debut and he speaks very broken English
oh i see uh-huh
and basically he played um a Frenchman who married an American girl
uh in a marriage of convenience
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so that he could get his green card which is what an alien needs to work in this country
right um-hum
and uh because she could claim she was married she could get uh an apartment or a condominium in a very exclusive
building in New York that had a garden an an an outside garden which is very unusual there
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because she was a horticulturist and that was sort of her dream of course you know they got married and they never saw each other again except except fate threw them together and the Immigration and national Naturalization Service
oh i see uh-huh
um started investigating so they had to get back together and get their stories straight
and and she was a very sophisticated well sophisticated
urban New Yorker and he was a poor Frenchman who had grown up on the
oh
on the streets and sort of pulled himself up by his bootstraps and claimed to be a composer but there was no proof whatsoever that he really was
um-hum
he'd been working in a restaurant when they met
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and uh
they had to learn all about each other basically in a in a weekend and uh it was you knew what was going to happen of course
just a minute
um-hum
that they would fall in love well they fell into like at any rate and
right uh-huh
and when they went to the
query or inquisition or whatever
uh they did perfectly and then he said something because his English was so poor on for the most part he
he was so proud of himself for giving examples all the correct answers that
that on the last one he said oh i never remember that answer and that clued the investigator that he had memorized a series of answers
uh oh uh-huh
so um
