country. and then it all came apart. first xi s father was arrested, supposedly for supporting a play and a book that krcriticized mau. his mother was forced to denounce his father. one of his sisters reportedly committed suicide. because she was being hounded so much for the family s political problems, and that s a fact that you won t see in the official party histories. xi, still just a child, was forced to fight for his life in the streets of beijing. there was nobody at home. there were no parents at home for a very young teenager. and that teenager was trying to survive in the chaos of a revolution. the culture rev lolution was this implosion of chinese society, right down to the family level. just this kind of inferno of all
good politician. i wanted to show that politics matters and that there are some good politicians. it strikes me and it s clear from title of the film that you re dealing with tragedy on a family level, on a personal level, but also nationally as a society. how did you balance those two pieces of the story? yeah. as i say, i kept filming because there kept not being an ending. i kept filming. there was the first impeachment trial and then trump was still in office and then there was the second impeachment trial. jamie just kept getting more and more involved. i kept filming and tommy had not wanted to be part of the film. i didn t have much on tommy.
out. it s a debate about so many things, and not just critical race theory, but vaccines. it s everything. how we treat police. it s right down at the family level, the next-door neighbor level, and it has to stop. not the first pairing that came to mind, jordan. how is it talking to your dad every day, or talking to john on this podcast? how did you guys get along? it s a free nightmare, don. clearly, i ve been out to america. talked to a lot of people i disagree with. at this point, i don t care. let me pick a name out of the hat, and i got somebody who almost became i was going to say almost became friends, but that s not true. i got a failed presidential candidate as my podcast partner. so be it. i d like to show the american public that if i can do it, if i can sit and talk to a failed presidential candidate and we
anytime. i just want to say it is this whole division, don. it is in our families too. families can t get along and people are canceling each other out. it is a debate about so many things and not just critical race theory but vaccines and it is everything. you know how we treat police. it is right down into the family level, the next door neighbor level and it has to stop. not the first pairing that came to mind, jordan, i mean, how is it talking to your dad every day or talking to john on the podcast? you know what it is a real nightmare, don. clearly i have been on to people that i disagree with so at this point it is like i don t care let me pick a name out of a hat and i got somebody that almost i was going to say almost speaking i
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