Now showing at the AMC Loew’s Village 7 in New York, Aftershock is the official submission for China’s best foreign film for the 2010 Academy Awards. Unlike most Chinese movies that play in New York, this is not targeted at Western audiences like Yimou Zhang’s costume dramas, for example. Since director Feng Xiaogang was unabashedly appealing to his countrymen’s tastes, it is essential fare for anybody looking for an unfiltered take on what matters to a Chinese audience. Since Feng is regarded as China’s Stephen Spielberg, this is especially true. Like the American, he knows how to get to peoples’ hearts, even if exploiting melodramatic gimmicks of one sort or another.
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