Set in modern-day Beijing and 1970s Ningxia, director Xiao Jiang's debut feature explores the power of movies in launching dreams and creating memories. After a bicycle collision leaves Mao Dabing (Xia Yu) with a lump on his head, he promises Ling Ling (Qi Zhongyang), the girl he hit, that he'll care for her fish while she's recuperating. When he stumbles across her diary, he learns the truth about her past -- which rekindles his love of cinema. - Netflix
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Leave it to Beaver moves to the big city, this movie has a bit of the production value of a Chinese continuation of main-line Korean romantic comedy (KORROMCOM), movie continues like Will and Grace chugging V-8 instead of their regular absinthe and cream, changes over into a 1970s story, at least that's what it reminded me of, and it gets kind of serious, more than sentimental and interesting. I'm not saying anything political here, but "Young Mao" is kind of a great guy.
To be perfectly ridiculous, in terms of rock, if Kansas had lyrics that seemed a little more complicated, like Rush, then what would be the name of that band? Ottawa, Manitoba? Ugh, there's no such band, Ningxia is more like Canada and East Oregon, and it seems to be warm there, cotton is grown.
Anyway, near the end, there is something easy to miss, this woman is into movies, someone is playing a video at her apartment, there is an old scene of a young woman feeding fish paste to her bird, singing a song, apparently in order to give the bird more of a croaking voice, a voice like Humphrey Bogart, I suppose it's funny.
There is a lot in this, it is not fatiguing, it is easy to deal with and it moves along comfortably, it is made for a wide audience. Walt Disney made movies of mice, ducks and dogs, this is about people instead. If G didn't mean 'idiotic', I suppose it might get a G rating. 'Electric Shadows' means 'Movies' in Chinese. This movie premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2004.
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