In the Heat of the Sun

A Revolutionary Childhood.

Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."

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lateen watched this on 2026-03-20

On the surface its a coming of age story, but its more than that. Its looking back on your young self and old times with not only a bit of nostalgia, but also stating it as a fact of your past.

The cinematography is great, I love the warm yellow glow cast on everything

The movie is also very communist, which is cool to watch from a red-blooded-bald-eagle-screeching-gun-toting-dictatorship american perspective.

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