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Liu Jian's short but meaningful Chinese animation, depicts a modern dystopia that could well be described in the novels of Philip Dick, but at the same time to so vividly represent today's reality. A bag full of money sparks a series of unexpected encounters between disparate characters, in the first Chinese animation in the history of the Berlinale to take part in its International Competition section. A stereotypical gangster with his requisite taciturn executioners, a young driver who wants to satisfy his girlfriend's vain dreams, a lumpen couple dreaming of moments of socialist happiness and a middle-aged man with surreal technological gadgets, they revolve around the fantasy of an economic utopia, oxymoron enforced by the decadent capitalist symbols present in almost every scene of this brilliant little film. Continue at source ...
Liu Jian's short but meaningful Chinese animation, depicts a modern dystopia that could well be described in the novels of Philip Dick, but at the same time to so vividly represent today's reality. A bag full of money sparks a series of unexpected encounters between disparate characters, in the first Chinese animation in the history of the Berlinale to take part in its International Competition section. A stereotypical gangster with his requisite taciturn executioners, a young driver who wants to satisfy his girlfriend's vain dreams, a lumpen couple dreaming of moments of socialist happiness and a middle-aged man with surreal technological gadgets, they revolve around the fantasy of an economic utopia, oxymoron enforced by the decadent capitalist symbols present in almost every scene of this brilliant little film. Continue at source ...






