Sooo much better than its reputation. Very well written, directed, and acted, so far as I could tell. Translation to English leaves a lot to be desired on any of the copies you’ll find on YouTube, Chinese being a language full of particular historical idioms and turns of phrase that can be obtuse without contextual understanding while translating. There’s quite a few moments where a group might laugh at someone’s statement where the language itself as written in the subtitles…

Embarrassingly stupid. Like if a Redditor recounted what they ed about Stalin after reading his Wikipedia page one time. That is to say— absolutely packed to the brim with falsehoods that are based off of American anticommunist propaganda telephone-gamed into hearsay that have since been PROVEN false by historians such as J. Arch Getty who don’t even have an ideological bone to pick with the anticommunist paradigm. But then turn all those falsehoods up to 11 in caricature mode. Literally…