Just read another review (Wall Street Journal) that takes Free State of Jones to task for being overly didactic - ah well, no guarantees. Ross made The Hunger Games, it seems - haven't seen the sequel because I thought the original film, although it had some good acting and characterization and directing, was based on a plot featuring a preposterous authoritarian political structure (i.e., cardboard nasty guys running a world) - simplistic Hollywood appeal to make money out of selling an adolescent sense of righteous rebellion for little more than its own sake. Anybody seen the sequel to it? Maybe I judged too quickly - hopefully Ross has grown a bit, or become less cynically opportunistic - anyway, he's got a real subject with Jones.


Xuning Temple, Kunming's mountaintop sanctuary
发布者@JanJal: Not sure what the point of volunteering to help on this would be - they've got the money and the workers will probably want to get paid.
Xuning Temple, Kunming's mountaintop sanctuary
发布者@Ocean: I've never seen any indication that it's unfriendly. Many things concerning ritual in china are not matters of belief/hypocrisy, but a matter of proper and acceptable practice - you can do it or not, nobody will be bothered.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
发布者could be, JanJal, but a lot of very rich people make a point of making a profit out of the situation of very poor people too - and they've got the money to do it efficiently.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
发布者@Jan Jal: I agree that the flip side of the Chinese identification with the family often means a certain relative lack of regard for those who are not of the family. I don't know that this has anything to do with poverty. As for putting one's own survival and benefit first, that sounds like most people. But I'm not sure the school tragedy can be reduced to this.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
发布者@Mike: 'China' didn't do this - 'China' doesn't have or not have respect for others - and who are the 'others' that you might be referring to, and what do they have to do with this tragedy?.