As so often in the past, Chinese film-maker Jia Zhangke swims down into an ocean of sadness and strangeness; his new film is a mysterious quest narrative with a dynamic, westernised musical score.
Caught by the Tides reflects with a kind of numb astonishment at all the novelties that the country has been required to welcome, all the vast upheavals for which the people have had to make sacrifices. The film shows us the mobster-businessmen who have done well in modern China, the patriotic ecstasy of Beijing getting picked to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the creation of the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam which meant so much unacknowledged pain for the displaced communities.
Qiao sends letters and texts but Bin doesn’t reply, so she sets out on an epic journey, involving a long trip up the Yangtze River to track him down, armed with a taser to attack possible assailants.
And what does Qiao want? Does she want to get back together with Bin? Surely not. One of the film’s cumulative effects is the realisation that we have never seen them kiss, never seen them be romantic or tender together in any way. But she wants closure, of a sort'; she wants a confrontation with her past, wants to cancel the wrongs done to her which she perhaps senses are part of the larger wrongs of history.
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