BRUTAL
The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the "Chinese Dream." This observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.
.........After the slow, silent images of the exploited working class, living from one day to the next, the lowest and most vulnerable layer of the working class, the film moves upwards into the world of the service sector. He shows what the hopeful domestic servants learn in the butler's course. How they are taught how to lose the last shreds of self-respect, because the master has the right to take his displeasure out on them, to wipe his feet on them. They should still, under all circumstances, smile, not talk back, do their job. How this credo runs counter to the independence and autonomy that comes from gaining a job and a qualification, and the self-respect that comes from a sense of vocation and earning money.
The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the "Chinese Dream." This observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.
.........After the slow, silent images of the exploited working class, living from one day to the next, the lowest and most vulnerable layer of the working class, the film moves upwards into the world of the service sector. He shows what the hopeful domestic servants learn in the butler's course. How they are taught how to lose the last shreds of self-respect, because the master has the right to take his displeasure out on them, to wipe his feet on them. They should still, under all circumstances, smile, not talk back, do their job. How this credo runs counter to the independence and autonomy that comes from gaining a job and a qualification, and the self-respect that comes from a sense of vocation and earning money.
