Watch Disorder utional Use
- NR
- 2006
- 58 min
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7.4 (184)
"Several features have caught the chaos of rapidly industrialized China, but none is as raw or terrifying as this." - Glenn Sumi, Now Toronto Huang Weikai's one-of-a-kind news documentary captures, with remarkable freedom, the anarchy, violence, and seething anxiety animating China's major cities today. As urbanization in China advances at a breakneck pace, Chinese cities teeter on the brink of mayhem. One man dances in the middle of traffic while another tries to jump from a bridge before dozens of onlookers. Pigs run wild on a highway while dignitaries swim in a polluted river. These scenes, unshowable on China's heavily controlled television networks reflect an emerging underground media, one that can truly capture the ground-level upheaval of Chinese society.
In Disorder, Huang Weikai takes footage collected from a dozen amateur videographers and weaves them into a unique city symphony of social dysfunction.
Huang shatters and reconstructs a world that's barely comprehensible, though one whose energy is palpable: vibrant, dangerous, and scary. The result is "a raw and candid look at the China typically hidden from outsiders" (Ashley Meloche, The Epoch Times).
WINNER, Young Jury Special Mention, Cinema du Reel Film Festival, France
WINNER, PRIX RED Award, Belfort International Film Festival, France
WINNER, Jury Special Mention, Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival, China
Official selection, Pusan International Film Festival
Official selection, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Official selection, Hot Docs International Film Festival, Toronto
Mandarin w/ English subtitles.
Disorder utional Use is a 2006 documentary with a runtime of 58 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.4.