 In a review published in "The American Historical Review" in October 1996, Michael Sheng writes, “The filmmakers... interpret the [1989] movement with passion and intellectual vigor," noting that "angry voices from the Chinese exile community have denounced the film and its directors as loudly as the Beijing government.The filmmakers, however, are not the first or the only ones to hold the argument that the polarizing approach of both sides made the tragedy inevitable.Many scholars, observing the divisions within the student leadership as well as in the government, have formed opinions similar to that of the filmmakers….