a a son who grow up in a family of communist and i find this movie very insightful represent the twist and turn of what fervent idealist take to be worker paradise through the 50 and 60 and 70 and then to the end of the dream in the late 80 or early 90 be very well portray and especially with judy davis stalwart commitment and which be portray quite sympathetically while the dark side of her family relationship be also poignantly sketch and a be her son struggle with history represent both global and personal while all in all and a superb blend of the comic and the dramatic represent a genre it very easy to screw up and be rarely and if ever and handle as deftly a it be here .