First off, congrats to David Redmon for birthing such a glittering image of wasted beads. You can see by the end of the doc that the globalized capitalist economy is built on consumer desire. The factory owner, Roger, sees what he wants to see: a purpose for his product. He even sees that apex of Chinese desire: fleeting happiness. His delusion stands in stark contrast to the opinions of his workers and Mardi Gras revellers. Roger is evidently living in the 1980s, not seeing that the market that Deng Xiaoping opened has now become, in Hu Jintao's time, a market based on branding and self-promotion, not mind-dulling labour. It is the inventive and creative capability of any nation that makes it a powerhouse, not its stature as "the factory of the world". Roger(China, developping country) makes almost ten times less than Dom's profit of (USA, G8 member) 13 million.
If Redmon terms his American documentary as a "cultural exchange", where he shows Americans to Chinese people and Chinese people to Americans, then he should make his motives and actions clear. Revellers may understandably want to be anonymous, but whomever made the IMDb page should credit the workers Redmon interviewed: Ga Hong Mei, Qui Ba, Lio Lila. Who is his translator? What is her name? Nowhere does Redmon credit her. By failing to even credit his informants, here again the documentarian is an American Imperialist trash-picker, cleaning up nothing and just poking content to dump elsewhere.
Where are mentions of Buy Nothing Day? To where can capitalist desires be funnelled? We need an exposé of that. Calling for an exposure of public space and community building! Calling for an unmasking of PolyStyrene's and PolyEthlene's impact on the environment! Calling for a parade of vegans to reconsider the health of their environment in their support for petrol-based nylon and vinyl for shoes and accessories over First Nations' leather. Everyone sort out your own yard!
To where does the collective guilt that these questions stir up lead? How do journalists target "the way things are" for so long without making up their minds to support one side, another, or your own? Are you going to wait until you're welcomed in the public eye before you finally blow your real opinion out of the metaphorical water? Are you going to be a cog in the machine until you're "freed" by your substantial massed money? Are you pleasuring others in your pleasure?
If Redmon terms his American documentary as a "cultural exchange", where he shows Americans to Chinese people and Chinese people to Americans, then he should make his motives and actions clear. Revellers may understandably want to be anonymous, but whomever made the IMDb page should credit the workers Redmon interviewed: Ga Hong Mei, Qui Ba, Lio Lila. Who is his translator? What is her name? Nowhere does Redmon credit her. By failing to even credit his informants, here again the documentarian is an American Imperialist trash-picker, cleaning up nothing and just poking content to dump elsewhere.
Where are mentions of Buy Nothing Day? To where can capitalist desires be funnelled? We need an exposé of that. Calling for an exposure of public space and community building! Calling for an unmasking of PolyStyrene's and PolyEthlene's impact on the environment! Calling for a parade of vegans to reconsider the health of their environment in their support for petrol-based nylon and vinyl for shoes and accessories over First Nations' leather. Everyone sort out your own yard!
To where does the collective guilt that these questions stir up lead? How do journalists target "the way things are" for so long without making up their minds to support one side, another, or your own? Are you going to wait until you're welcomed in the public eye before you finally blow your real opinion out of the metaphorical water? Are you going to be a cog in the machine until you're "freed" by your substantial massed money? Are you pleasuring others in your pleasure?