Movies Watched -- Ascension (2021)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

In Mandarin. 97 minute running time. This movie was like an extension or update to Burtynsky’s Manufactured Landscapes, which was a great documentary. This one is more deeply disturbing and even terrifying to see what China has become in the digital age. As John Farr wrote: “the vast majority of Chinese people [are] nameless, interchangeable cogs in an immense, highly exploitative economic engine.” Super grim and troubling, filled with desperation and insecurity … bleak.