Lavafalls

"Everything in Moderation including moderation"

Michael Johnson

27 / Male

Chicago, IL, USA

About Lavafalls

Travel Guru | Member since 29th Jan 08

Citizenship: USA
Website: Silver Drops Jewelry Designs
Occupation: Library Science Student/Metal Smite
About Lavafalls:

I like yaks!

Hobbies:

Reading, Politics, Travel, Watching Movies and Metal Working

Favourite places:

CHINA! Tibet, Chicago, Colorado, Burma, Mongolia

Activity : photos (229) forum (148) guide (1358636) blog (5) diary (0) trips (1)

Latest Blog Entry

The Passion of Mao: A Movie Review

Posted by Lavafalls | 27th May 2008

I am a big believer that seeing movies and reading books about countries before, while and after traveling there can make the experience better. For some of my favorite countries I try to keep up to date on movies, books and newspaper articles. This way I maintain a connection with that country. Recently I read a review of a new documentary called “The Passion of Mao” directed by Lee Feigon and it caught my eye. My parents, brother, brother’s girlfriend and I decided to see the movie.

This documentary had a few interesting parts to it. It was a revisionist history of Mao and the Cultural Revolution, which is new for most people in the western world. Meaning that the voice of the movie was not going to be the normal way the story is told. I had a heard about revisionist versions before and I wanted to learn more so we went to the arts cinema in downtown Chicago. Another perk was that the director of the movie was going to be there for Q and A afterwards.

When the movie was

Continued | The Banana Pancake Road