This is a blog for friends and family members to get a wee report of the things ive seen and my personal opinions about them.It is mostly inconsequencial shit barely rescued by a mild seasoning of spellchecker.
Members of the public are welcome , as long as you promise not to get offended.
"As the title suggests, Red Amnesia considers the selective
memory that erases past stains as contemporary China continues its
frantic sprint to become a social and economic superpower. Wang Xiaoshuai's
latest is somewhat bipolar, beginning as an unhurried mystery about the
harassment of an elderly widow before abruptly switching gears more
than halfway through to take an unsentimental plunge into the past.
Combining elements of melodrama and thriller with a strong political
subtext, this is a challenging work that guards its secrets closely but
builds cumulative power."
Though the article is quite wrong to describe the main characters home as a "shabby apartment" , for Chinese standards she lives in a well-off upper civil service quarter with leafy suburban streets away from the noise and air-pollution of Beijing with each apartment block having ample greenery and gardens of varies flora.The very kind of place that a successful apparatchik who negotiated the vagaries of Maoist times with all the guile and ruthlessness required would aspire hope to retire to.This becomes very pivotal to the plot and conclusion of the film.
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