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WellFrog · 56-60, M
Decades ago I went to an artsy movie theater with a friend and we saw the Chinese film "A Great Wall". The plot involves a Chinese- American family visiting relative in Vina as well as some native Chinese friends who are not part of the family story but juxtapose the lives of young Chinese national with those of the Americans
Uniquely the opening and closing of this movie is in English (while in America) with Mandarin subtitles with the bulk of the plot presented in Mandarin with English subtitles while in China. I
I will need to revisit this one as I saw it almost 40 years ago! This in a theater with broken air conditioning on.a sweltering Texas summer night,! It did add a layer to the experience of the characters in China during a hot summer!
Uniquely the opening and closing of this movie is in English (while in America) with Mandarin subtitles with the bulk of the plot presented in Mandarin with English subtitles while in China. I
I will need to revisit this one as I saw it almost 40 years ago! This in a theater with broken air conditioning on.a sweltering Texas summer night,! It did add a layer to the experience of the characters in China during a hot summer!


