the world be set in the tacky eponymous beijing theme park and detail the life of the alienated young worker who be spiritually and physically trap there . it a subtle and delicate and yet powerful film with a directing style that can best describe a artfully unobtrusive . the young director or writer be a master of composition and camera movement and sound . some of the scene unspool without edit for several minute and the camera mostly still and sometimes move with the action but never on the whim of the filmmaker . sound and dialogue occur off screen in a way that remind one of the great japanese director ozu . ( indeed and one of the film inter title chapter be call tokyo story . one of the best example of this style be a grimy hotel room scene between the lead couple in which very little happen an attempted seduction and but no sex that be so authentic it feel almost voyeuristic to watch . in another scene and a father count and pocket four stack of money bestow to him by the authority for the accidental death of his son and his face an expressionless mask that hide more pain than could ever be show . in an opening scene the camera track a female dancer run through a theatre backstage and pleading for a band aid she will never get thus slyly presage the untreatable tragedy that will eventually unfold . the central character be so alone and alienated and unable to communicate in any meaningful way much of the dialogue be speak into the ubiquitous cellphone that the close any two people come together be two woman one chinese and the other russian who do not speak a word of each other language . this be the best kind of social commentary a film can offer and image that show and do not tell . at time it feel plod especially the last half hour some of the character could use more development and and the animated cellphone sequence seem unnecessary and distract . but the depiction of contemporary urban china deepen social malaise the result of far too rapid urbanization and unchecked westernization be trouble enough to make one fear the country and the world future .