Up The Yangtze DVD

In the largest engineering project since the Great Wall China has set out to harness the power of the Yangtze an endevour that provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for a dramatic and disquieting film on life inside the Chinese dream. Among the two million losing their livelihood to the dam the Yu family must send their daughter off to work. In a bitter irony she's been hired into a strange apocalyptic tourist trade that thrives along the river offering a glimpse of a legendary world before it disappears forever. Stunningly photographed and beautifully composed... Up the Yangtze juxtaposes the poignant and sharply observed details of Yu Shui's story against the monumental and ominous forces at work all around her. Where Western passengers take in the spectral views consuming entertainment on the spacious upper decks while Yu Shui toils in the galley down below vying with workmates for the few permanent positions. All the while the ship charts a course towards its controversial destination traveling upriver through a landscape of unprecedented upheaval as ancient and revered sites give way to the burgeoning candy-coloured towers of China's neon future. Back at the river's edge far from the bright lights Yu Shui's parents assemble their humble possessions as the floodwaters rise. [show more]

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