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Welcome to Destination Shanghai (Mu di di Shanghai) 

Year: 2003
Country: China
Director: Andrew Cheng
Starring: Sihong Huang, Yi Jin, Zi'en Cui
Synopsis: As China reinvents itself Shanghai has grown to become one of its most popular cities for Westerners. But there's a price that comes with revamping a city and this film looks at the cost for sex workers.
Quick review: This is a dark film, and by that I mean that it was mostly shot in the dark. It's low budget, and it appears they didn't have a lot to work with on set design, so they put a couple of actors in a room, used a single light to highlight them, and left everything else in the dark. For all I know, 10 or more scenes in this film were shot in the same room. That's easy to understand, they didn't have a lot of money to work with. What's not so easy to understand is the way the film bounces around without ever letting the audience make a connection with any of the characters. The film starts out focused on a 22-year-old male who has just decided to become a prostitute. You get short scenes of his life, but little else. There's no explanation when he's suddenly walking down the street nude. And just when you're trying to understand him, the film jumps to a 50ish woman who is looking for a new career. Of all the characters, this one you at least come to understand. But just when you're wondering if things will pan out, it jumps to her 14-year-old son. And there is no way for the audience to identify with him, because he doesn't get a single word of dialogue. The film wants us to care about these sex workers and those who support them who are struggling while Shanghai is being reborn, but its biggest failing is that it doesn't allow the audience to form a connection with them.
 

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