Ai Weiwei is an outspoken Chinese
artist and political activist. He
criticized the Chinese government over the deaths of 5000 students during the
2008 Sichuan earthquake. He was
taken into custody by the government and he received a severe blow to his
head. He also defied the
censorship laws by helping to organize and inform Chinese citizens. This movie was filmed from 2008 to
2010.
I see the other review numbers for this
film are good but there is one word that can describe this effort, boring! Almost like a sleeping pill but not
quite enough to get you really snoring.
Every detail of his life is shown but no questions about the inspiration
or the why or how of his art are asked?
For example, he has a large installation of chairs fashioned together as
one of his art pieces. Why did he
choose this type of chair, what does this mean to him, what was his
inspiration, what does he want viewers to take away from this project? 2* (I didn’t like this movie)
91 min, Doc directed by Alison
Klayman with Danging Chen, Ying Gao, Changwei Gu, Tehching Hsieh, Huang Hung,
Yamping Liu, Evan Osnos.
Note: Blockbuster 4*, imdb 7.3 out of 10, 96%
critic 90% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
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