Review of: Shijie (The World), Chinese movie

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by hockeyshooter on 14 Oct 2007

I must admit that I watched only part of Zhang Ke Jia's 140-minute Chinese film "Shijie" (The World). It portrays the lives of a small group of workers at a strange theme park just outside Shanghai, built around scale replicas of famous landmark buildings around the world - so much more ironic for many of the central characters yearn to leave China and see some of these buildings for real. Superbly acted, I found it a sad yet compelling movie that accurately portrays the huge culture clash between the China of old and the Western world China now strives to become part of. Providing you don't expect anything like the sort of movie modern Hollywood tends to churn out, I think you'll be absorbed by this impressive work.

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Shijie (The World), Chinese movie

Tags: chinese culture-clash developing globalization irony modern modernization prosperity repressed superficiality the-world
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