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Forums > Living in Kunming > Good Movies for 2015

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.

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It also apparently (I haven't seen it yet) brings up interesting and important questions about how history works and how popular perceptions of it are often pretty naive, including the particular history of the US Civil War.

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I think you're imagining the situation to be way more serious for a tourist like yourself than it is. Come make your trip.

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There is no footbinding anymore. It's necessary to understand the past, useless to condemn it, reasonable to regret it. What needs to be condemned now is that which produces the poverty in which some people live.
But this article doesn't really help one to understand the past, it merely reminds us that there was one.

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@tiger: sounds curious, education is compulsory through middle school, and is essentially free - i.e., for Chinese students, the law is that they MUST go to school, therefore some school MUST accept them. Do you think this happened because your daughter is a foreigner? Or another theory?

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.