Search - Beijing Rocks (Dol) on DVD

This Sexy China...

Michael Kerjman | 09/13/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A son of a Hong Kong tycoon moved to mainland China attracted with local Western-style rock band tunes to escape from a father's shadow and establish himself as a self-made-man. Accepted by rockers, travels and works with musicians, experiencing personal matters and witnessing strange realities of newly re-united country.



Probably, by so common in rockers' environment motorbike incident (in 1992 Victor Tsoj of Russia, more known regionally among these tragedies) having a death of an innovative band front-man inflicted, an idea of impossibility to speedily modernize a huge populated country is somehow being attempted.



Relatively young age of characters-twenty-twenty five years-allows suggestion that a next movie sequence will reflect a fulfillingly-developed careers of talents in new China, in spite tragedies they overcame at the century fall.



Personally, I like this movie for a vibrant, youth-optimistic, sexy saturation it spreads around.

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