rubberdingyrapids
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Lol, meaning that if he were Chinese-Chinese, he would of course have total loyalty to his country's government? (I know you don't mean that exactly, but...)
I think we can give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that criticism of the Chinese Communist Party and the country's military doesn't necessarily make him a self-loathing race-traitor.
im saying that american international relations/biases can be absorbed quite easily, even if he is 'ethnically chinese'.
as far as the film, id say chinese military/govt people actually came out of it sympathetically in the end, or at least at the very end.
on a very similar note (because it saves its big reveal until the final hand, except here the british govt come off worse, after being depicted with much stilted even handedness, while in arrival, the chinese govt come off sympathetically, after many displays of kneejerk irrationality), i saw viceroys house. id say the british come out of it pretty well. theyre not implicated as much as you might imagine, nor are they let off the hook entirely. the film walks this balancing act almost to a fault really, so fairly it ties itself into a bit of a dull knot. but emotionally, its pretty powerful. as good a film as the modern british film industry is prob going to allow anyone to make about british rule in india. though i dont know if i know many other films about the british empire. i might need to go back and rewatch jewel in the crown and some of those merchant ivory films.