THIS REVIEW CONTAINS A SPOILER. This is a film with good acting, fine visuals and generally good writing. I do wonder about the editing and the contrived ending. Actor Weaver Lee, in his first important role, was placed in the impossible position of trying to make this character believable. He had to make us believe that he was a brainwashed communist so cruel as to have tortured those who loved and raised him and to have raped an innocent young girl. He is allowed to grind his teeth slightly when he watches his parents shot, presumably the beginning of his disillusionment with Communism. Then Mr. Lee has to make us believe that he is suddenly completely changed after seeing the result of his rape, a son. Perhaps Weaver Lee's career might have been furthered had he been allowed at least some kind of transition to make this character believable. Though this is a story of the triumph of good over evil -- and there is no doubt as to who is good and who is evil -- this one character is allowed to get away with atrocity after atrocity completely unpunished. Instead, he is rewarded with the girl, a son and a presumably free and happy future life. Not a mention of his hideous acts or any kind of payment therefor. In the context of this film, that ending gave me the creeps.
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