Posted on 04/26/2021 7:55:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Chloé Zhao’s history-making Oscars sweep, winning best director and best picture, is being met with a muted response in her country of birth, and even censorship.
Zhao’s “Nomadland” is the second film directed by a woman to win a best picture Oscar. She is the first woman of color and second woman ever to win the Oscars for best director.
Yet, in China, where Zhao was born, her history-making success has not been trumpeted or celebrated. State media in China remained silent as of Monday afternoon, with no mention of her win by either CCTV and Xinhua, the two main state-run outlets.
Instead, there was even censorship. A post announcing Zhao’s directing win by film magazine Watch Movies, which has over 14 million followers on the ubiquitous Weibo microblog, was censored a few hours after it appeared Monday morning. A hashtag called “Chloe Zhao wins Best Director” was also censored on the platform with users coming across an error message saying, “according to relevant laws and regulations and policies, the page is not found.”
Some users resorting to using “zt” to post about Zhao, using the initials of her full name in Chinese, Zhou Ting. Typing in Zhou’s name in Chinese on Weibo brought up only unrelated posts from the beginning of April. A search for “Oscars” showed only official posts from the South Korean and U.S. embassies.
Douban, an app popular with film buffs, banned searches for “Nomadland” and “Zhao Ting” saying that “the search results could not be displayed in accordance to relevant laws and regulations.” Multiple discussion threads about Zhao’s win were deleted on the app as well. A news article on WeChat, the largest messaging app in the country, was also deleted.
Still, the news of her wins spread onto the Chinese internet,
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Just read the synopsis on wikipedia - Good Lord it sounds like a pretentious movie.
Same here. But then I feel that way about anything which is referred to by critics as “a powerful character study” (generally said, I find, about characters that were never studied at all).
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That was enough for me. lol
A propaganda film spouting the leftist view that the American Dream is dead. Don’t concern yourself with giving your children a better life than you! Give up on capitalism and embrace socialism! You will own nothing, and be happy!
So, why would the Chinese censor references to that???
Not sure but someone on another oscar thread mentioned Zhao is no friend of the CCP so apparently the CCP and Zhao have issues regardless of the win or the left leaning movie that won.
Oh it’s anything but pretentious. They used actual nomads in the film. It is the most depressing movie I have ever seen, but I did like it. And Francis McDormand - wears no make up, shows her wrinkles and doesn’t try to look like she’s 20 - so she gets a pass from me.
Quite the contrary. She had other options but chose the lifestyle depicted in the movie. There are quite a few out there who do live this lifestyle which is why they made a movie about it. Perhaps one could say it was anti capitalistic since it portrayed lower economic folks but I never got that impression. There was a short paragraph at the beginning stating this occurred because of the Great Recession but it never said why the Great Recession occurred and I recall no politics in the movie at all. She was also asked why didn’t she move to an area with jobs and it was because she didn’t want to. The town had great memories for her with her late husband and it was home. The movie showed she had options but chose this lifestyle anyway.
No kidding, the Oscars were a train wreck
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