The World

1st Draft

It should be clear by now. - PiL "Careering"

This movie is smart, it feels like one is reading some book by Ezra Vogel, the great Harvard sinologist. Or does it feel like the Seinfeld episode with Miss America, the doves and the water from the melted ice? Sometimes one watches a movie that goes beyond 'easily reviewable'. Directed by Zhang Ke Jia, who is also the director of Unknown Pleasures.

When you realize....it's just a story.. - The Teardrop Explodes

What's a word for 'epic' that could describe this movie? It's not epic. My Sassy Girl and The World seem like the two widest Asian movies.

In the sun, in the sun, in the sun sun sun. - Lydon Sun

Made in 2004. Available at Netflix and yesasia (link).

Abstract

Director Zhang Ke Jia's first big budget feature revolves around the tumultuous love affair between two workers at a Chinese theme park....and an inside look at the heartbreaking lives of the men and women who reliy on this example of consumerism to eke out a living. - from the Netflix review.