Mr. and Mrs. Deng were at home in Beijing when they received word from the Canadian government that their son, Shi Ming, had committed suicide in Vancouver, where he'd been living. The notification contained little detail, and the Dengs were left baffled. They decided to travel to the western Canadian city in order to get to the bottom of what happened to their only child. This search for understanding forms the basis for Ying Wang's fascinating, frustrating documentary. Filmmaker Ying Wang made contact with the Dengs in 2007, and filmed their journey for an entire decade, wrapping in 2017 and spending the next two years on editing the footage down into a manageable chunk. The final product is this year's extraordinary documentary The World Is...
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- 10/9/2019
- Screen Anarchy
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