So lame

No, you're in the 3.2% (so far) who hated this movie. Or so it seems.

It's hard to find this movie completely satisfactory, but to call it lame... oh, well...

it's not that bad...if you are an urban chinese or if u could imagine how complex and confusing the chinese urban cities are, consisting of ppl from varous backgrounds...the theme park is "interesting", but it's fake, the dancing scenes are glamorous, but not for the dancers, the cities (typically beijing) are pretentiously modern and posh, but not for the migrant workers (whom Jia focused on this film)...Like Jia's previous film, The World depicts the world of the marginalized chinese mass, namely, peasants and suburban residents...Beijing, Shanghai or any Chinese big city u can name, they are big, unfriendly big, but they are not the cities of the ppl, rather, they are cities of the money...as the last scene reveals...the young migrant couple end up helpless...

I think the film is supposed to show that life in an artificial city is uninteresting, that events fall out of place, and that nothing "works": in short, contemporary, commercialized life itself is lame and phony. Also, amidst the sterile environment of a theme park lies a lonely and poor underclass.

By the way, it is likely that the setting of the film is an actual theme park, Windows of the World in Shenzhen, which I visited briefly only a few days ago. What I found memorable was not the outside of the park but two old women pestering tourists and begging for loose change. They were eventually driven off by a police officer.

That's understandable, since the film is most likely a criticism of you, and based on how you express yourself, you probably had little to no perecpetion of the film's formal construction or scene choreography, which is essential in accessing an emotional engagement with this stylistically distanced film. Had your perception been more sensitive, I'm sure you would've been "satisfied" with it. Otherwise, The World is an intelligent, subtle, and heartbreaking film. I hope you see it again.

I´m not hate it, but I think that it is really boring.

For me the only interesting thing is to see diferents part of Beijing, but this is not enough to do a good movie.

Oscar from Rosario-Argentina

I saw this movie on the sundance Channel and I thought It was good a little boring but good.

While watching it I did feel like it was too long yet thinking back there isn't anything I'd want them to take out. I even liked the animation sequences. I thought they were the most interesting part (and I mean that in a good way). They showed how much more vivid their communication via text messages was compared to the banality of their everyday lives. There was something incredibly voyeuristic about watching this film for me. Perhaps because I have known people living in similar circumstances to these characters, i found their situations more touching than dull.