'One Child Nation' starts as a personal look at China's family planning policy. It ends as a devastating portrait of national trauma and guilt. Our four-star review
Though the law was ended in 2015 — “revised” might be a better word, given that families could now havekids, but were still given a procreational limit — it had been on Wang’s mind as she prepared to give birth to her first child. So the Chinese-American filmmaker decided to return to her home town, cameras in tow, and talk to family members, neighbors, and others who lived through the repressive policy.
Along with her codirector Jialing Zhang, Wang uses the personal connection to begin tracing a bigger picture of what one person calls China’s “population war against its people.” They talk to a village leader who forced locals to terminate pregnancies, turning a friendly visit into a hostile encounter. They interview a rural doctor who “helped” unwilling participants stay in the government’s good graces; she now treats only infertility cases as a sort of karmic atonement.
What eventually emerges is a peerless portrait of collective trauma — a devastating look at how this law not only sociologically gutted a country but made everyone complicit in the crime. “We had no choice” is repeated from interviewees across the board, and a familiar just-following-orders refrain echoes across the entire film. A story of a pregnant woman running down the street to save her unborn child is nightmarish.
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