THE BEIJING JAM（PART I: first 8mins 30secs)

The BeiJing Jam is a film to give regards to documentary SURPLUS, Silver Wolf award winner of 2003 International Documentary Filmfestival in Armsterdam.SURPLUS talked about consumption lifestyle under forces of Globalization when people are prone to over consume or even to be terrorized to consume .when looking back to SURPLUS under current Global financial crisis,I especially admire those filmmakers accurate sense to crisis. When BeiJing as one of major cosmopolitan cities in China,going under fast-paced development with people looking forward to satisfy their material needs more than even before,the problems in SURPLUS will surely emerge sooner or later .The BeiJing Jam was trying to raise these question and hopefully suggest some answers before the problems went too far to talk about it.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• cars
• traffic
• jam
• road
• rage
• urban
• life
• beijing
• China
• consumption
• Globalization
• documentary

[nemasen]

wrong, wealth does correlate to happiness until some cap, then it curves off.

[ZIPITTV]

hey there,"wealth does correlate to happiness until some cap, then it curves off"is like saying "sex does correlate to a happy marriage until some cap,then it curves off",so what the CAP can be?some sexier hot baby or someone wealthier?

there can't be a wrong or right ,black or white conclusion to current fast developing China .but we definitely have the right to think about it ,and I choose the doc way to visualize what I 've felt!

thank you for the comment!

[Valkyriepure]

The race to 'modernity' in the shape of a shithole.

[hotlot88]

Maybe they should limit the days that a person can use their car. sort of like they limit how many kids they can have.

[Hfddrp]

Amsterdam* not Armsterdam ;)

[hot12lips12]

this brings back memories.