The World
d. Jia Zhang-ke, 2004
An epic film by any counts, Jia Zhang-ke's The World is a wonderful achievement. The film revolves around a theme park in China named, if I'm not mistaken, "The World" (one of its taglines is "see the world without ever leaving Beijing). Zhang-ke has made a film about the backstage life of the people that work at the park, focusing on a performer, Tao, and her security guard boyfriend, Taisheng. Though the film is long, running at about 140 minutes, and to some people it is quite slow, the beauty of its images more than makes up for that. I can't wait to watch The World again.
