"However, the most affecting and indelible impression is the universal sense of displacement, acedia and resignation, and the rapport Tao strikes with fellow Russian dancer Anna (Shcherbakova), a leitmotif crying "lost in translation" human understanding. THE WORLD might rightly pander to an occidental viewpoint of an emerging, monolithic, oriental economic threat and its benumbed populace living in their own shallow world, a mock version of what those fortunate citizens dwelling in the developed countries. That's one crucial reason the film is reckoned as a minor film from Jia, he can't be arsed to even suggest the resilient spirit that aids people through gray days, in lieu, what he tries to evoke is a downcast sneer and a God's view superiority, two years later STILL LIFE (2006) would satisfactorily rectify this error."
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read my full review on my blog: cinema omnivore, thanks