From AFP, via Yahoo! News:
“Peacock,” a family drama about individual freedom in Maoist China, screened in competition at the Berlin film festival Friday in a picture the director said revealed the major strides Chinese society has made on personal liberty.
As the competition wound down at the 11-day event, filmmaker Gu Changwei said he had aimed to present a snapshot of 1970s China where the expectations of family could be as repressive as the state apparatus.
“Individual degrees of freedom have changed immensely as China has become more affluent. There is now a much greater degree of liberty outside the family,” Gu said.
