Yao Honggui herself is an enigma, the kind of a person whose more revolutionary aspect is that she has no grand aspirations, and the actress manages to project both a poker face and an internal turmoil with her sudden bursts of movement – up to the last dramatic scene. The Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ world, whose basement shows the society’s underbelly, is replaced here with a world proud of perpetuating fake promises (and shots of magnificent swimming pools while discussing strict employment demands). We are transported into a documentary world (the film ends with the beginning of the COVID pandemic), in which sanitizers now substitute beauty creams, and the question of a healthy society lingers on and builds momentum in the film’s somehow lax but still connected three acts. In its crisp cinematography (by Ryuji Otsuka) and all-too-distanced and still wide shots (including the relative absence of musical cues), the film wants to have no part of this story and transaction. The upcoming baby is a tool in a transaction that Lynn needs to initiate and the whole family needs to implement. Lynn will need to reconnect with her parents, but moral conservatism has no place here. The whole baby business will change that.Īnd it is a baby business for all its characters to execute the film loosely spins its web to build a portrait of a world in which the most atrocious conversations are conducted inside of a car (in one instance, the KFC restaurant prominently shows as if it is a mark of honor for the shot). Lynn is one of the ‘left-behind’ children (children who were left with relatives so that their parents could work in another town) her relationships with her parents amount to no more than a few phone calls and a regular sending of a money check (to them). We now add Lynn’s parents to the melting pot, a gynecologist now reduced to selling ‘Vital Cream’ products for every use, and a father who has built a clinic that cannot run efficiently. Her boyfriend is suave, stylish (he poses for various agencies), and loves his DJ’ing job more than he cares for Lynn. Lynn is a flight attendant in training in Changsha (Hunan province) and does some part-time jobs wearing fake tiaras to lure jewelry clients. The film’s running time of 148 minutes is still slow-burn compared to mainstream fare standards, but it reveals a 9-month essay on China’s contemporary consumerism and its aftermath. Things are not different in ‘Stonewalling’ here, the narrative takes a decisively more defined terrain, resting on Lynn’s upcoming (and unwanted) pregnancy. Pregnancy in her work is the ancient mantra that resists all sorts of glamorization of Chinese society and makes her characters suffer as a result. Take a break with Sigmar’s Garden, an original alchemy-based solitaire game.Chinese director Huang Ji has presented a bleak but unflinchingly honest portrait of young women in post-capitalist China, both in her first feature, ‘Egg and Stone’ (2012), and in her follow-up, ‘The Foolish Bird’ (2017) film. Solitaire Minigame - Alchemical engineering takes focus and concentration. Alchemists, who hold the power to create almost anything known to science, are highly sought- and highly dangerous. Rich Story - Intrigues and dark plots swirl around the city’s ancient Houses. Play the top user-submitted puzzles in the prestigious Journal of Alchemical Engineering, curated by Zachtronics! Steam Workshop - Make and share your own puzzles with full Steam Workshop integration and an easy-to-use puzzle editor. Export animated GIFs of your elegant designs to show them off. Open-Ended Puzzles - Compete against your friends and the world to build the simplest, fastest, and most compact solutions to the game’s challenges. Master the intricate, physical machinery of the transmutation engine- the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool- and use it to create vital remedies, precious gemstones, deadly weapons, and more.ĭesign Machines - Design and build machines that carry out alchemical processes using a variety of components including programmable arms, customizable tracks, and more esoteric devices like Van Berlo’s wheel and the Glyph of Animismus. Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, TIS-100, and SHENZHEN I/O. But dangers lurk behind the family’s opulent facade, and alchemy alone may not solve every problem. Hailed as the most promising alchemist of his generation, Anataeus Vaya has just accepted a position as Head Alchemist of House Van Tassen, the oldest and richest of the city’s ancient Houses. About This Game “It is not an exaggeration to say that without alchemical engineering, civilization would not exist.”
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