All's Right with the World
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Release Year:
2008
Story:
There is no country in the world without poverty. Whether in a capitalist or communist society, there are poor people. Hong Kong is rich in material and is one of the world's largest financial centers. It is strange that there are no local beggars in Hong Kong, and some of them are blatantly extravagant beggars from the Mainland. They are so bad as to pick up a paper at the age of eighty. None of them beggars, except for the crazy ones. The poor in Hong Kong is so poor that they are so secretive and so sneaky as if the poor are hard to see. The public houses built by the government for low-income people will be very beautiful, with huge parks and shopping malls, and it seems that the poor in ordinary sense cannot be seen. Are there poor people in Hong Kong? Why can't we see poverty? A peaceful and prosperous age, singing and dancing, and prosperity, this kind of good social surface does not mean that everyone in Hong Kong can enjoy it. What is the living condition of the poor in Hong Kong? In this film, there are a few families that would definitely be arranged in a line if it were a soap opera. The tragic fate in their mouths is so ambiguous that they have the same effect and make people wonder who it is and who it is when watching. What does that person have to do? In fact, the only connection is that the five families also receive CSSA, but each story goes in a different direction. They may be poor for different reasons and in different situations, but as a result, they have developed into very similar living conditions. They have reached the same situation by different routes. Almost all are the habits and adaptations to poverty. The film is interspersed with New Year's fragments and typical Chinese New Year has similarities and differences that are indistinguishable.
There is no country in the world without poverty. Whether in a capitalist or communist society, there are poor people. Hong Kong is rich in material and is one of the world's largest financial centers. It is strange that there are no local beggars in Hong Kong, and some of them are blatantly extravagant beggars from the Mainland. They are so bad as to pick up a paper at the age of eighty. None of them beggars, except for the crazy ones. The poor in Hong Kong is so poor that they are so secretive and so sneaky as if the poor are hard to see. The public houses built by the government for low-income people will be very beautiful, with huge parks and shopping malls, and it seems that the poor in ordinary sense cannot be seen. Are there poor people in Hong Kong? Why can't we see poverty? A peaceful and prosperous age, singing and dancing, and prosperity, this kind of good social surface does not mean that everyone in Hong Kong can enjoy it. What is the living condition of the poor in Hong Kong? In this film, there are a few families that would definitely be arranged in a line if it were a soap opera. The tragic fate in their mouths is so ambiguous that they have the same effect and make people wonder who it is and who it is when watching. What does that person have to do? In fact, the only connection is that the five families also receive CSSA, but each story goes in a different direction. They may be poor for different reasons and in different situations, but as a result, they have developed into very similar living conditions. They have reached the same situation by different routes. Almost all are the habits and adaptations to poverty. The film is interspersed with New Year's fragments and typical Chinese New Year has similarities and differences that are indistinguishable.
Casts & Crews:
Zhang Jingwei
Directors
Runtime:
73
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Director‘s Statement:
I remember that when I was a child, seeing out of my window there was a big row of illegally erected wooden and iron sheet houses which I would pass by when going to school. Living conditions there were very poor, without a toilet, and it was as hot as a steamer in summer.
Poverty at that time was very apparent.
As time passed and things changed, a high-rise building even higher than the one in which I’m living and a department store with an air-conditioning system has been built in this slum area.
Poor people disappeared.
No poverty is “seen” in Hong Kong anymore.
For sure, overall living standards in Hong Kong have been much improved in these decades, and 30-story public buildings with advanced facilities have replaced wooden houses. The residential conditions of poor people are improved.
But this is just the surface.
Though poor people are no longer in taters, uptightness and anxiety are still common to see despite all these beautiful buildings and prosperities.
In addition to poverty, these people also have many miserable stories. Is that by chance? Caused by social imbalance? Or do these people share some personal weakness?
Heaven is unfair.
Maybe poverty is just a superficial phenomenon, but what worries me is that, why do so many miserable things happen on them? And why are they unable to get out of all these miseries?
Poverty at that time was very apparent.
As time passed and things changed, a high-rise building even higher than the one in which I’m living and a department store with an air-conditioning system has been built in this slum area.
Poor people disappeared.
No poverty is “seen” in Hong Kong anymore.
For sure, overall living standards in Hong Kong have been much improved in these decades, and 30-story public buildings with advanced facilities have replaced wooden houses. The residential conditions of poor people are improved.
But this is just the surface.
Though poor people are no longer in taters, uptightness and anxiety are still common to see despite all these beautiful buildings and prosperities.
In addition to poverty, these people also have many miserable stories. Is that by chance? Caused by social imbalance? Or do these people share some personal weakness?
Heaven is unfair.
Maybe poverty is just a superficial phenomenon, but what worries me is that, why do so many miserable things happen on them? And why are they unable to get out of all these miseries?
Casts & Crews
Zhang Jingwei
Director
