http://www.ifccenter.com/films/ai-weiwei-never-sorry/
film bistro review:
A towering figure in contemporary art(you mean Jane Public, right?), Ai Weiwei has in recent years garnered international attention as much for his political provocations as his ambitious creative projects. For two years, journalist and filmmaker Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to his world, capturing Ai’s artistic process in preparation for major exhibitions, intimate exchanges with family members and his increasingly public—and dangerous—clashes with the Chinese government. The result is a richly nuanced exploration of today’s China and one of its most compelling public figures. Rival ,and imaginary long-distance pal Jane Public, dined with WeiWei at a local bistro next door to the IFC Center contemplating lunch options (mussels vs. a bacon burger) while being told by an attractive young waitress, "hey, I remember you buddy" . Jane knew that her memory about him (meaning Jane that is) had absolutely nothing to do with China, so he/she/Jane/whatevaitcallsitself opted to not engage in any conversation with her (the waitress). Jane opted to focus on the lunch menu and Weiwei.
BzzzzBzzzz (which actually means Tweet, Tweet, i.e. the Twitter cellphone vibrations) Weiwei asked Jane in the bistro with a tweet, "Jane have you seen anything good lately, anything worthy of talking or tweeting about. You know that people listen to me. I tweet. Especially now that there is a movie out about my life that includes my illegitimate son" Jane says, "The bishop in the 5 hour TV version of the film, Fanny and Alexander get's crueler by the hour, but let's remain in China for now and not head over to Sweden Weiwei with this fake lunch conversation that we are having publically. Let's not even go to Russia" (I really meant that, especially after learning today that the Fins are terrible and ruthless drunks when they head over to drink in St. Petersburg. BTW Fins means persons from Finland who travel to Russia to get hammered). Do people from Finland TWEET like WeiWei did (does)? Nope. Thank Gawd, because a drunk Fin would probably tweet with more typos than a babbling illiterate churchgoing lunatic from "down South."
Now again, what does any of this have to do with Weiwei? Nuthin' (except, of course, for that racist redneck unhappily married lunatic). So about the movie: It's moving. It's sad. It reveals the usual and expected results of a fight against any giant dinosaur (system). Basically, you cannot beat down a dinosaur until it becomes extinct. You can accelerate the extinction process by forcing nature to push things forward a little bit faster (ex. how we are currently terrorizing the ozone layer with our vanity aerosols). Systems like those that exist in China are hard to tear down. BIG DUH. People like Weiwei have begun to learn about the power of social media technology and are teaching us in the modern world that many injustices must go viral and many vicious liars can be exposed and revealed by organizing ourselves with guts and conviction for a greater cause (something bigger than ourselves). It is important to realize that ignorance, suffering, bullying and abusive forces must be stopped by using strategy, and this imaginary lunch pal called Ai WeiWei appears to be enjoying the lunch that he has chosen to cook up for us, the moviegoing & Twitter following masses. I looked at the lunch bistro menu for a very long time when Weiwei left to use the bathroom (actually he lied to me so that he could split and go send out yet another batch of tweets while sitting on a toilet for 81 days so that I was forced to pay for his lunch without dispute. You see, deep inside Weiwei is a cheap bastard). Nothing on the bistro menu spoke of China, eggrolls, fortune cookies or any other kind of method of social change via greasy technology. So, Jane gives this lunch doc movie, NEVER SORRY a big Tweets Up (THUMBS UP) for taking todays lunch hour to a higher level. And making the choice between mussels and burgers much less of a struggle of the will. In this modern world, all we really need for lunch now is one good WiFi connection and a cellphone who's battery is halfway charged. Duh. See the movie. Eat. Have lunch somewhere else so that the waitress will be unable to remember your face again. Bye.
USA , Made in China (no pun intended)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/beijing-artist-ai-weiwei-exposing-chinas-oppression/story?id=16872274#.UBSW82hurzI
p.s. when you see it, don't "TWEET" anyone in China 'bout it. and btw Jane had nuthin' to do with this film recommendation. shhhhh. hint, hint. DO NOT TELL ANYBODY WHO IS OF A CHINESE DECENT, MORON.
bye again for now. My beat goes on.
