ELECTRIC SHADOWS (2005) A (WOMEN) B(MEN)

Foreign: Subtitles

This very sensitive and touching movie was made in China. As with
many other modern day films from that country, it describes and deals
with the life of every day people. As everyone well knows, most
Chinese people are extremely poor by our standards, One of the
wonderful aspects of these movies is that they show how you can be
happy, sad, get angry, become frightened, love a child and the have
the other full range of human emotions without having all the
so-called conveniences of modern day American life.

This movie deals primarily with the interrelationships of children and
adults and other aspects of Chinese culture in the 1970's. From the
travelogue aspect it also shows how Chinese people live together in
the communal setting of a small neighborhood. The acting and general
production aspects of the film were excellent.

ELECTRIC SHADOWS (2005) A

Foreign, Chinese

Wonderful movie about family life in China during the Cultural Revolution. Acting and direction of children is something to behold. Story deals with the power of movies in this culture, which is so different than ours . . . and yet so much the same in terms of family relationships.