It was incredibly sad and horrific. The images of dead babies thrown in the streets will never leave my mind. The toll this took on these families was immense but I was incredibly angry at them at the same time because they were willing to kill a girl just to have a boy.

Wang took a topic that has so many possible angles to be approached from, and managed to explore a hand-full of them while still maintaining great cohesion and a very human sense of empathy for all sides involved. It felt genuine, like a story that truly mattered to the filmmaker and was handled with the care and sensibility it deserved. It was shocking at times, and brought tears to my eyes at others. A paradigmatic example of what documentary filmmaking is all about.

Well, China is not to blame but the China Communist Party, a evil institution that threatens not only China but the whole World. In the last 10 minute the filmmaker said a very dumb thing. A baby isn't a part of the woman's body, is other body, other life, distinct DNA. Imagine finding a baby's DNA at a crime scene or on Mars. When analyzing the DNA does anyone have any doubt that it will be a DNA belonging to a human being? If a baby's DNA is found on any planet, they will say that there was life or is life on that planet.

shitty western propaganda (not very well) disguised as mass manipulation, the same old orientalism.

A captivating documentary that explores how the one-child policy caused suffering for an entire generation. He highlights how a dictatorship may not consider people's well-being, but rather maintain power, using methods to control and impose its will. It's a shocking analysis that evokes memories of the dystopia of "1984."