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	redguide@ wrote:
	So many have written so well about this film anything that I add will only be redundant. However having said that I have to add this' I am a tour guide, and for 4 years I was one of those guides that escorted 'rich' tourists to China to get a final glimpse of the Three Gorges ' before it was totally submerged. Every tour was advertised as "your last chance to see what progress is destroying" it was the in thing to do when these boat tours started. The boats were always packed. Every character in that film duplicates individuals I knew in person during my times in China. The poor people struggling in one room shacks to survive, they are still in the millions, the arrogant boy who sees the tourists as 'smelly white people ready to be fleeced' he was on every boat. He too exists in the thousands. It is a corrupt environment, and life is cheap. The rich and powerful increase their wealth and power and the poor die daily. I assure you this movie is so true to life, it shows you cameos of what happens everyday over and over, and is always being pushed under the rug to present a glitzy progressive lifestyle to the visitors. The one big disadvantage that the director had was that he had to edit this so that you and I could sit through it without being exhausted. I assure you he could have elaborated for another two hours easily and still you would not have seen anywhere near the total devastation that is taking place everywhere over there... there is so much that you will never be allowed to see. He did an amazing job with what you saw and this should get a HUGE award, somewhere. It gets my vote. (10/10)
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