The Hollywood Reporter
Chinese Director Guo Jingming’s Tiny Times sells imaginings of lives yet to be lived. It’s a fantasy befitting a country careening in its turbo-charged way towards commodity-driven capitalism too.
“We are very different from people born in the 1960s or 70s…for people born in the 1980s, or even more so for those from the 1990s, it’s about trying to be different from everybody else. Whereas doing that in the past would see you branded as an anomaly, these days it’s all about looking after myself—saying, ‘I want to enjoy life the way I like it.’ ”
Chinese Director Guo Jingming’s Tiny Times sells imaginings of lives yet to be lived. It’s a fantasy befitting a country careening in its turbo-charged way towards commodity-driven capitalism too.
“We are very different from people born in the 1960s or 70s…for people born in the 1980s, or even more so for those from the 1990s, it’s about trying to be different from everybody else. Whereas doing that in the past would see you branded as an anomaly, these days it’s all about looking after myself—saying, ‘I want to enjoy life the way I like it.’ ”
