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A Pleasant Enough but Non-Esseental Anthology Love Letter to Shenzhen
With all anthology shows -- this collection of short stories go up and down in quality. The bad ones are still okay, but the good ones are keepers. The connecting theme is the people and wonders that make Shenzhen 'a city of miracles'!
So really this series is a pep-rally for the Chinese, repeating the Chinese trope of work hard, work together: we succeed!!
Hmm. A bit simplistic. Not everyone gets to succeed. Life is full of people trying and failing. Life is musical chairs, where not everyone gets a chair. This propaganda tone places rose-tinted glasses over the human condition.
That said, I didn't choose this series as my 'next great C-Drama'. After having just watched the amazing BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI, one of the best C-Dramas I have or will ever see -- I wanted something light and fluffy. To lower the bar kinda very low, so that my next serious C-Drama would be better than THE MIRACLES. My goal was achieved.
Understand a lot of writers and actors and directors -- and crews -- put a TON of work into these short films. It kinda breaks you heart to know that some of them should have been chosen to become solid 90 minutes. After 35 C-Dramas under my best, I recognized a lot of quality actors throughout. So it's not an utter waste of time.
I can only recommend this show as a pleasant diversion. If that's the mood you're in, give it a try.
So really this series is a pep-rally for the Chinese, repeating the Chinese trope of work hard, work together: we succeed!!
Hmm. A bit simplistic. Not everyone gets to succeed. Life is full of people trying and failing. Life is musical chairs, where not everyone gets a chair. This propaganda tone places rose-tinted glasses over the human condition.
That said, I didn't choose this series as my 'next great C-Drama'. After having just watched the amazing BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI, one of the best C-Dramas I have or will ever see -- I wanted something light and fluffy. To lower the bar kinda very low, so that my next serious C-Drama would be better than THE MIRACLES. My goal was achieved.
Understand a lot of writers and actors and directors -- and crews -- put a TON of work into these short films. It kinda breaks you heart to know that some of them should have been chosen to become solid 90 minutes. After 35 C-Dramas under my best, I recognized a lot of quality actors throughout. So it's not an utter waste of time.
I can only recommend this show as a pleasant diversion. If that's the mood you're in, give it a try.
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