Dragon Girls

These are the inevitable thoughts when and after I watched this film:

-This documentary was well made.

-All of this young kids were from poor families, especially from the poor, rural Chinese villages. Rich kids' parents would never send their brats to such training school. In order to unburden the tough financial status of these lower class families, parents usually would send their kids to such free boarding schools.

-The so-called "Kung Fu", the traditional Chinese martial arts, in modern days MMA, is just a so-so fighting technique that sometimes proved to be inferior to other countries traditional martial arts. Most of the time, it's useless and pointless. Kids from such schools would never have the realistic and practical ways to make a decent living when they grow up and out of such schools.

-Such kind of schools in China is a subtle method to control the Chinese mass, especially the young kids from the lower class, the very poor, to force feed the disciplines to them, narrowing down their mind and body in order not to become criminals or rebellious anti-Communism members, and achieve the goal of a "Stabilized" society. These kind of schools is just another form of "Reforming" schools, some kind of concentration camps but in a milder but still very strict and harsh form. More like military training camps, what they are training are the very young kids.

-Taking notice of the terrible polluted air quality in China everywhere. The heavily PM 2.5 smog inhaled 24/7/365 year around by these kids. They won't have healthy lungs to perform, their potentials would be limited.

-Chinese Kung Fu in mass production? It's a false and pointless hope, a wishful Chinese way of thinking. I just feel sad for these kids.