Julia Albrecht & Busso von Müller| 133 mins | Germany |  2008

“Shanghai Fiction” menceritakan kisah empat orang dari generasi dan asal-usul sosial yang berbeda di Shanghai masa kini:  Yuan Lei, Liu Wei, Hebe Ting, dan Johannes Dell. Melalui pengamatan para protagonis yang tidak menyolok sekaligus berkesan sangat akrab, “Shanghai Fiction” mengintip ke balik fasad kebangkitan Cina di bidang sosial dan ekonomi. Di sela-sela itu, melalui distorsi digital seolah-olah tergeser ke jarak yang terasa asing sekaligus akrab: gambar-gambar arsip, yang mencirikan persepsi mengenai Cina selama beberapa dasawarsa terakhir: perjalanan panjang, teror-teror Revolusi Kebudayaan, barisan “semut biru”, pembantaian Tian An Men.

“Shanghai Fiction” tells a story of four people from different generation and social origin at the present day: Yuan Lei, Liu Wei, Hebe Ting, and Johannes Dell. Through the discreet observation and intimate impression of the protagonists, “Shanghai Fiction” gives a sneak peek beyond the façade of China’s social and economy resurrection. In the sidelines, through the digital distortion, which as if it shifted to the alien yet friendly distance: the archive pictures, which characterize the perception on China for the last decades: the long journey, the terrors of Cultural Revolution, the “blue ant” line, Tian An Men slaughter.

Rabu | 7 Desember 2011 | 13.00 | Societet