The movie starts off during somewhere in the 1940's following a man named Fugui. Fugui is quiet a rich man and shows how a typical upper-class person’s life would be. However, atypical of a normal Chinese person, Fugui spends all his money and loses his house gambling. After this, he has to work as a puppeteer, which then led him and his partner to be conscripted by the Chinese Nationalist Army. The part where Fugui is taken also shows many more men around him being taken in; men being taken from their homes and jobs to join the Nationalists army was very common during the time period of the first Chinese civil war. “To Live” shows the hard life of being a soldier during the first civil war by showing how many died and how ill-equipped the army was. Many people were killed by the communists but even more died of the cold, hunger and diseases. The movie then skips ahead in time to the time of the Great Leap Forward. This part of the movie portrays history by giving the viewing an insight into how life would be like during that period. It shows how people had to give up so much to smelt steel but were still enthusiastic about the revolution.
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