80 minute running time … a documentary and sort of a performance art piece in a way… filmed on trains in China between 2011 and 2013 … I lived in China from 2005 to 2015 and I also spent my junior year abroad there and did a year of post-grad study … anyway, I’ve experienced everything that the filmmaker captures — the sights, the sounds (including Kenny G. and a lot of phlegm being coughed up), the textures … and I love the earthy humor of the Chinese. People who’ve never been there may find it fascinating (and appalling).

J.P. Sniadecki (born in 1980) speaks really good Chinese, even better than mine (which at its height was pretty good). Looks like he did a year of language study at 华师大 (his junior year abroad) and a year at 清华 … he may have been living full time in China from 2008-2010 (it’s a blank on his resume).

I watched all the bonus material, which must have been stuff he cut out so the film wasn’t overly long … enjoyed it all, but makes me happier than ever that I’m not in China now.