I am very impressed with and moved by the film. It is a fascinating document, a powerful memorial, an essential educational resource, and a truly brave insertion in the debate about China's relationship to its (buried) history. It is a powerful and defiant step in the essential political and cultural project of China recovering a history that it has officially denied. Without filmmakers (and historians and writers) doing the kind of work Peng Xiaolian and S. Louisa Wei are doing, China's present will never be able to turn into the future its people need and deserve. Storm under the Sun is striking in its bold formal/structural innovations. Its animations and use of music contribute a level of irony, of satiric lightness that cuts against the tendency to accumulate a gloomy, pessimistic mood of mourning and despair.