Baby girls were the most abandoned. Boys carried the family’s name for the next generation. Nanfu Wang learned this lesson early.
In Nanfu Wang’s chilling new documentary, “One Child Nation,” a midwife seeks absolution for women she forcibly sterilized and babies she killed during a draconian family planning program that began in China decades ago to prevent overpopulation and famine.was testament to the enveloping propaganda and omniscient reach of the communist state to reshape cities, provinces and villages.
“I was the executioner,” a midwife, who had performed thousands of sterilizations and abortions, including on women who were tied-up and dragged to her, told the filmmakers. “I counted this out of guilt because I aborted and killed many babies. Many I induced alive and killed. My hands trembled doing it ... I want to atone for my sins.”That harrowing confession reverberates through Wang’s latest work to examine the forbidding side of China’s pervasive power over its citizens.
but to see them with empathy. It’s easy to paint a black and white picture to dramatize and make extreme the evil character or the hero character, but, in reality, life is much more complex than that. What causes them to do the things they did? That’s what we wanted to explore.”That question is central to China’s top-down system of control and indoctrination, which is as prevalent today as it was in the late 1970s.
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