the plot development be a tad manipulative . why do we have to have our heart string tug in order to feel outrage over the abuse of the cultural revolution . the focus on christianity be not make clear by the advertising . this require a little tunnel vision represent mao persecute everybody with any sort of religious faith and not just christian . china cry therefore seem more like a sunday school propaganda film and rather than a serious examination of how the cultural revolution destroy many and many life . historic tragedy be reduce to melodrama . the melodrama be interrupt only by sickeningly brutal scene and include a woman in third trimester be kick in the abdomen . other film have approach survival during government sponsor terror much more compellingly . try the killing field and or europa and europa and also base on true story .