Campbell Ping He, Cindy Shui Yu, Jerry Bo Yu Chen
At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
Stats: 260 reviews
Parts of this film are really bad, like filming a bunch of tourists on a small boat singing "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean", the whole damn song, but the subject matter trumps every bad directorial choice and this film will touch your heart. It's a sad story, and does, to be fair...( read more)
Compelling and compassionate film-making: visually sublime and, despite the occasional lull, an incredibly interesting and minimalistic documentary.
I think filming such poor people living beside the river had an impact on how they reacted. With a camera in their faces the true emotions weren't seen and most of the time they appeared nervous. They were obviously going through a massive change in their lifes and this was only ...( read more)
While it does a great job at profiling the different types of people being displaced by the ongoing Three Gorges Dam project, it never seems to delve deep enough to give the viewer a true understanding of the feelings off displacement and loss these individuals are surely sufferi...( read more)
of course, people will behave differently when they know or they've been told that they'd be filmed....so somehow, i think what has been documented about in this movie has been somewhat altered to some extent. And yet it remains very interesting, vivid, and imaginative!
A slightly uneven but still thought-provoking examination of the impact of capitalism on individuals and the environment. This film would be an interesting supplement to a basic course in economics.
Chang gracefully juxtaposes the country and the metropolitan to express the knotted-up mixture of anguish, anger, hope, and trepidation of those in the dammed river's wake. full review
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