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The ‘p’ stands for pirates. If you don’t know what ‘dnd’ stands for, then you are unfathomably lame. Alternatively, you might just belong to a different social order than that of the pallid, darkness-dwelling creatures I count among my friends.
I don’t watch many documentaries, but this came highly recommended, so I snatched up a copy as soon as it became available. It wasn’t so long ago that I watched Jia Zhang-ke’s film about the Three Gorges dam, ‘三峡好人’, so I couldn’t help but draw comparisons (in spite of the fact that Jia’s is a narrative feature). Each film presents an unique take on the way the massive project has dislocated so many people, but ‘Up the Yangtze’ is enveloped in a kind of personal journey of Canadian director, Yung Chang. This turns out to be both a strength and a weakness (but still more a strength).