Andrew Ball

Honest. Raw. A snapshot. Just a moment in time, that’s all it is. It shows an honest appeal, that just so much as china are so supremely powerful in their ambitions to be a figure and leader of reckoning in the world, they are also just as vulnerable and susceptible to influence and ideologies as any other woman/man or nation. I saw in this film an unveiling of human condition that made me feel more comfortable in the notion that we are all perhaps so much more similar, more than we may ever know. While in one instance this film may feel foreign in many ways, the ideas behind servitude to the hierarchy, kneeling to meet the needs of the elite members of society, if we search deeper within ourselves, we realise that we may be facing the exact same influences in any country, as we navigate our own fears and insecurities, as we journey through this current climate of hypocrisy and inequality, still searching for purpose and meaning, as this whole system and structure pretends to be the new world but is in fact an old world, old as time, regurgitating itself and appearing relevant until one looks a little closer. Watch, reflect, be open and honest within yourself. China in all its technological glory immediately falls apart as it bares its own flesh, naked and soiled, manipulated and lemminged, just like you and me. Breathe it in, and be the change.