This was quite good. They did such a good job of making this feel like it was 1980s China - as a Westerner, the only thing that really struck me as out of time was the flashlights.
They should almost make a short tomb series with the old school yellow light flashlights that were all we had for the longest time, bc it would be way more terrifying but we would never be able to see anything 😅
I really liked the three leads in this and An Lin the Old Man is one my favorite side characters ever. He was great.
Compared to Lost Tomb Series there are a lot of similarities but in this one it really is ghosts that blow out the candles 😉
This is pretty good. Its good to see all 4 of the leads again - I think this might my favorite role for Dunk far. I'm glad they cast Peter - its kind of cool to see an American play a Thai police officer!
I love the Burger Joint - so classic looking. Tbh - Thailand is just killing this retro look rn
Also - this is really making me want to rewatch 10 Things I hate About You 😂
"His family is in electronics. That's why he has a shocking personality." - I want to meet someone with an electronics background so I can introduce them to everyone and then sit on this, until the exact right moment - every. single. time. I doubt I kno them very long, but it would be worth it.
This show is hilarious. The sewing bit in episode 2 - "Let's do some hidden stiches" 🤣🤣
Thank you so much for this comment! I had somehow missed Joy of Life despite Chen Dao Ming is one of my absolute favorite actors - I going to start watching today even!
Painfully great. The only way to enforce the law is by making a big bang to be noticed. And that last scene in…
You repeated this twice and it seems quite important so I want to make I'm understanding correctly - what do you mean the "The law is defamed" - defamed is likely one of the least used words in English outside of a courtroom and I don't understand this contextually.
This show had a lot to say. Despite the drama plot there was so much real life in this show. The character relationships, especially those between the parents and the children, are very well done.
Somebody said this is some of the best child acting that they have seen in Asian media - this is some of the best child acting in general. Zi Shen might be the best child actor I have ever seen. I actually noticed that Zi Shen has another project with Wang Jing Chun, the actor that played Detective Chen, and I'm very likely going to watch that simply to see if Zi Shen is like this in every role.
Ok, I just finished the first two episodes. This show is incredible. I didn't see any of it coming and only now, at the end of the second episode, am I considering the title of show.
These three kids are acting like they have been forever. Zi Shen, really has been in more projects than many adult actors several times his age but the for other two, this was their debut and Sheng De - Pu Pu, she was 10 years old when this was made. I'm incredibly impressed with all of this.
I prolly won't come back til I've finished this bc of spoilers.
If you are on the fence about this show - just give it 10 minutes. It will hook you in 10 minutes.
how is it propaganda? the second sino Japanese war was a very real thing and the Japanese atrocities are very…
I wholeheartedly believe that Mao was genuine in his cause for the greater good of China. I believe that when he set out to change China had he been merely power hungry he would not have been able to be as passionate as he must have been - the people that joined him and his cause did so bc he made them feel that China deserved better, that they deserved better and so they too found the passion necessary for revolution. If Mao had not believed the things he was saying - I don't believe that I would know his name.
Its good you've noted that people change. Everything does really. Mao set out to attain power and power does corrupt but it is the journey that most changes people. The pursuit of power and keeping it. The Mao that unified the CCP and China had a different perspective than the Mao that set out. This still doesn't lesson him but it obviously contributed to his very black and white decision making later on. Mao was a human, like of all of us.
Most people will dismiss you - tell them anyways. I see history as the progression of humanity to the point where all of us are capable of taking the point of view that you and I have in this conversation.
When all of us can see the world for what it is - we don't need leaders anymore. We can have AI determine the maintaining of things, general basis of taxes and whatnots - I'm being fr. If we can think for ourselves about how to behave together - than we truly do not need leaders anymore.
With no leaders, none with power above others, there will no games of power, no power struggles, no wars. Essentially, humanity just needs to stop needing parents and become an adult and behave as we know we should. In some respects I'm endlessly pitching that philosophy in different form. Don't get frustrated, just have fun with it.
I don't say stuff like this to everyone - not everyone can hear it. They maybe could tho 😉
how is it propaganda? the second sino Japanese war was a very real thing and the Japanese atrocities are very…
I"m an American - there is nothing about the Republican Government that was stable or valid, it most certainly warranted revolutionary action taken by its citizenry. Communism was all the rage at the time - it makes sense the ideals and fundamental principles of such political ideology would resonate with the Chinese People - as their is a more communalistic cultural mindset within China and that obviously comes at the expense of individuality. None of that surprises me.
To the actual Revolution and its leadership - I assure you that it was about power, Mao needed it to fix China so of course he set out to attain it. That doesn't lessen him - if not Mao, there would have been another bc the society had already decided.
The propaganda part is that you are still fighting this fight a century after it happened...
how is it propaganda? the second sino Japanese war was a very real thing and the Japanese atrocities are very…
I think it is very important to note that the atrocities committed during WWII were the result of Fascist belief that some humans are less than others. It is not propaganda. It is also not something limited only to the Nazi's and Imperial Japan - all human beings are capable of doing terrible things - it is our shared humanity that prevents such atrocities.
The situation in Germany and Japan was simply US vs THEM rhetoric taken to the limit until it became believed and institutionally accepted throughout their societies. Rendering people less than people will always end badly.
It is very important that we not forget that this did happen and that it cannot ever be allowed to happen again.
Chinese has developed its literature far before the West did, they have started Printing Press and Industrialism…
That is why I brought up African literature - bc both the West and the East have largely ignored African accomplishments but they are absolutely making contributions, so how can we rank global literature without accounting for all of it.
You have brought something to my attention tho. I'm very limited in my languages - I kno English and a fair amount of German, I've also been exposed to a lot of Latin, I do all right reading French - less so Italian oddly enough. I have like a 1st grade level of Spanish. My point is, I'm very much aware that language itself determines a fair amount. There are words that have no English equivalent for example. That is true for all languages. Which brings me to my question for you.
Can Chinese literature be translated into English? All things must become English to be Global. It is the lingua franca of humanity, hopefully forever considering the extent of current use.
Chinese has developed its literature far before the West did, they have started Printing Press and Industrialism…
I don't really think of it like this. I don't think you can rank quality like that. In college I was exposed to several African novels that I would never have found on my own or ever been exposed to that were incredible pieces of literature. China has added literary epics to the Global History of Humanity but many works are not even accessible to the Global audience as they are untranslated into English.
Well, I'm not sure I would have watched this had I realized but I'm glad I did. This is real life - almost too real tbh. I've had an almost identical conversation as the leads in episode 6 - it was a little surreal. Having someone that obviously loves you, that you also love, explain to you that they want a family, which of course you also want, but that we wouldn't make the right kind of family is quite cruel but its also heartbreaking bc you are also watching someone that you love deny who they are at a level that practically guarantees unhappiness in their future. You can only lie to yourself for so long, thats life.
This show will likely become my example from here on out of how Gay relationships differ from hetero ones - specifically regarding things like SA.
Qi Lu may break rules to get Qin Xiao to be honest with himself. He has been very clear that he doesn't want a relationship more than a friend, he has established very clear boundaries and apologized for misleading him, he has said no.
It's eerie to me bc I'm doing my thesis and I've decided on appropriation of art. Death of marat and girl with…
China is no stranger to Western Culture - the educated in China likely know more about it than the average American. Education in America is pretty bad as evidenced by our last election. Obviously the paintings you selected are very famous - Girl with Pearl Earring is one of most famous paintings in general. How are you approaching art of that kind from the lens of cultural appropriation? I'm actually quite curious, I've no opinion - to me cultural appropriation is something you hear about every Halloween when someone decides it will be funny to dress up like an Indian Chief.
I hope China figures things out soon. They want so badly to be the number one country they don't realize the only real way to do that is to become the number one culture. So many people around the world discovered Chinese media bc of BL and then they shut it down - not really a good way to present on the global stage and set them back a bit fr.
Like, BL alone is evidence that China has some issues to work out - there are a lot of gay people in China. There is a single generation that had 25 million more men than women - so there is literally some real life BL stuff going on in China rn. Its like an identity crisis really - China can't accept itself.
They should almost make a short tomb series with the old school yellow light flashlights that were all we had for the longest time, bc it would be way more terrifying but we would never be able to see anything 😅
I really liked the three leads in this and An Lin the Old Man is one my favorite side characters ever. He was great.
Compared to Lost Tomb Series there are a lot of similarities but in this one it really is ghosts that blow out the candles 😉
I love the Burger Joint - so classic looking. Tbh - Thailand is just killing this retro look rn
Also - this is really making me want to rewatch 10 Things I hate About You 😂
This show is hilarious. The sewing bit in episode 2 - "Let's do some hidden stiches" 🤣🤣
Somebody said this is some of the best child acting that they have seen in Asian media - this is some of the best child acting in general. Zi Shen might be the best child actor I have ever seen. I actually noticed that Zi Shen has another project with Wang Jing Chun, the actor that played Detective Chen, and I'm very likely going to watch that simply to see if Zi Shen is like this in every role.
I very highly recommend!
These three kids are acting like they have been forever. Zi Shen, really has been in more projects than many adult actors several times his age but the for other two, this was their debut and Sheng De - Pu Pu, she was 10 years old when this was made. I'm incredibly impressed with all of this.
I prolly won't come back til I've finished this bc of spoilers.
If you are on the fence about this show - just give it 10 minutes. It will hook you in 10 minutes.
Its good you've noted that people change. Everything does really. Mao set out to attain power and power does corrupt but it is the journey that most changes people. The pursuit of power and keeping it. The Mao that unified the CCP and China had a different perspective than the Mao that set out. This still doesn't lesson him but it obviously contributed to his very black and white decision making later on. Mao was a human, like of all of us.
Most people will dismiss you - tell them anyways. I see history as the progression of humanity to the point where all of us are capable of taking the point of view that you and I have in this conversation.
When all of us can see the world for what it is - we don't need leaders anymore. We can have AI determine the maintaining of things, general basis of taxes and whatnots - I'm being fr. If we can think for ourselves about how to behave together - than we truly do not need leaders anymore.
With no leaders, none with power above others, there will no games of power, no power struggles, no wars. Essentially, humanity just needs to stop needing parents and become an adult and behave as we know we should. In some respects I'm endlessly pitching that philosophy in different form. Don't get frustrated, just have fun with it.
I don't say stuff like this to everyone - not everyone can hear it. They maybe could tho 😉
To the actual Revolution and its leadership - I assure you that it was about power, Mao needed it to fix China so of course he set out to attain it. That doesn't lessen him - if not Mao, there would have been another bc the society had already decided.
The propaganda part is that you are still fighting this fight a century after it happened...
The situation in Germany and Japan was simply US vs THEM rhetoric taken to the limit until it became believed and institutionally accepted throughout their societies. Rendering people less than people will always end badly.
It is very important that we not forget that this did happen and that it cannot ever be allowed to happen again.
You have brought something to my attention tho. I'm very limited in my languages - I kno English and a fair amount of German, I've also been exposed to a lot of Latin, I do all right reading French - less so Italian oddly enough. I have like a 1st grade level of Spanish. My point is, I'm very much aware that language itself determines a fair amount. There are words that have no English equivalent for example. That is true for all languages. Which brings me to my question for you.
Can Chinese literature be translated into English? All things must become English to be Global. It is the lingua franca of humanity, hopefully forever considering the extent of current use.
The cultural revolution in China essentially negates the history you mentioned.
This show will likely become my example from here on out of how Gay relationships differ from hetero ones - specifically regarding things like SA.
Qi Lu may break rules to get Qin Xiao to be honest with himself. He has been very clear that he doesn't want a relationship more than a friend, he has established very clear boundaries and apologized for misleading him, he has said no.
Qi Lu absolutely should ignore all of that.
Thats the difference. Clearest I've ever seen it.
Like, BL alone is evidence that China has some issues to work out - there are a lot of gay people in China. There is a single generation that had 25 million more men than women - so there is literally some real life BL stuff going on in China rn. Its like an identity crisis really - China can't accept itself.