One Child Nation

audience Reviews

, 85% Audience Score
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    A great documentary about China's infamous one-child policy. Though, the filmmaker sort-of trips over herself when she smuggles in the topic of American Abortion rights. Other than that awkward moment, it's a nearly perfect film that I'd recommend to anyone.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Documentarian Nanfu Wang (whose name alluding to hopes for a son in the family) is a new mom whose own memories of China's one-child policy spanning 35 years led her to adventure upon the darkening trenches of a nation's harrowing extreme population control and its spine-chilling affliction on its people and their families.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Although everyone should see One Child Nation, this is perhaps especially important material for those raised in Western democracies while the one child policy (among many government decisions over many decades) ravaged our counterparts in China. I can't recommend this film any higher.
  • Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
    Nanfu criticises a regime but does not offer an alternative and gaslights Chinese opinions as "brainwashed" and invalidated their actual thoughts. Obviously biased. Can she please suggest how she would have tackled overpopulation.
  • Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
    For a more objective and insightful analysis of the one child policy you'd be better off just reading the Wikipedia article on this topic. Don't waste your time with this documentary.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    Not fit for anti-abortion believers. Great work but it fails to reach any conclusion.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    'One Child Nation' is a wide-reaching American documentary film directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang about the fallout of China's one-child policy that lasted from 1979 to 2015. It's illuminating and eye-opening and could change your mind on certain things while disgusting you at the same time. No matter what your information level is on this subject, it's a great lesson to not believe everything the government tells you because they just could ruin the species. Things are almost always done in someone's self-interest and while the filmmaker doesn't connect the dots in this case the self-interest lies in rich Chinese men. There is no way to change the irreparable harm that's been done, but watching this rather large subject being consolidated to less than 90 minutes is a good start. There's no one person portrayed that I felt connected to, but I did feel a symbiosis with the subject matter overall. While there are disturbing images that may even go too far, it's another great doc in a year filled with them. Final Score: 8.7/10
  • Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
    Important to see this perspective on the restrictions in China and the interesting work being done in Lehi, Utah to reconnect families. Amazon was the medium.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    A film about a country-wide problem giving us a personal look into it, but at the same time giving a broader view into the mostly unknow history, about that period of a not long time ago
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Wow what a great way to see how a country convince their entire population to follow a rule. I really enjoy this documentary and the way it's done so unique.