Presented with no commentary, this documentary acts as a core sample of China's consumer society. Beginning with factory workers, then moving up through the service industry, corporate cogs, influencer hustlers, and upper class aspirants to professional butlers and bodyguards to the wealthy, the film is a scathing indictment of consumer culture. Okay, sure, China but also, any one of these scenes could have been filmed in America. There's almost no difference in terms of the desperation to have more of everything. Having it presented like this, however, it's even more of an eye-popping realization.
It's streaming on Paramount+ and is worth watching if only for the scenes with the assembly of custom sex dolls. One had elf ears. I fucking screamed. And the bodyguards with the random baby goats. So cute.
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