In a society focused on
an adherence to the Orwellian model you invariably end up with something like
80 to 90 percent of the population defined as Proles (aka: proletariat). The Proles are interchangeable cogs in a
vast economic wheel driven by a central society — if you need extra labor you
simply truck them in from the country and when the task is done you dispatch
them home (forcibly, if need be).
There’s no need to “rule”
them per say, they simply have no power and no say in how the country is
run. They fend for themselves. China is such a society.
Chinese filmmaker Huang
Weikai, back in 2009, recognized the inherent chaos of what had descended upon
large parts of his country … as a result of a central design.
He took it upon himself
to assemble “found footage” from something like a dozen amateur filmmakers and
edited the material into a mosaic of modern China and its rapidly growing
cities and the laissez faire mayhem that
has sprung up as a result of the adaptation of the Orwellian model.
Short little snippets
that all share a common theme … to hell with the Chairman Mao’s “Little Red
Book” and the Cultural Revolution, it’s George Orwell’s “1984” baby!
The result of his labors
is the award-winning film, Disorder, which will be making its
domestic DVD debut courtesy of Icarus Films on Mar. 17.
Presented in Mandarin,
with English subtitles, the DVD release also includes his rarely seen 2005
film, Floating (aka: Piao) as a bonus.
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