jia have keep his style but lose some of his edge in this state fund effort with it rather relentless harp on the irony of a globalized china whose underling can not get out of the country and be stick in menial job in beijing and cut off from their native dialect and where they come from and reduce to express their strong emotion in text message and cellphone chat . there be compel moment and like the two main lover taisheng ( taisheng chen ) and tao ( tao zhao ) lie on taisheng hard dormitory bed and even the schmaltzy wordless commune between tao and her russian friend anna ( alla shcherbakova ) and but in the aimless round of daily emptiness of work at this trashy hi tech carnival falsification of the world outside and which the worker will never see in person and jia lose the momentum of the turbulent and emotional decade he chronicle in platform or the tragic downward spiral of the two boy in unknown pleasure . i do not object to the animation and because theyre thematically unify by always be connect to travel and cellphone and they create a sense of link with the 20 somethings and the generation after the director that he focus on here while the fact that theyre glib and kitsch just fit with everything else quite intentionally . so do the new age y techno music score and which be annoy and repetitious and but again and intentionally so . this time there be a bluntly ironic contrast between the pretty brightly color costume of the world show the girl put on and and the shabby run down environment in which they live off duty . the contrast be a little too pat represent surely some of the environment and there be one and at the train station off duty be a glitter and new a the world stage show . one can not say that jia have lose the complexity of environment he achieve in his early film while he just limit it focus . one may miss the jangling ambient noise of platform and unknown pleasure and though and and particularly the informative tv broadcast of the latter and which always fit in context even though they may speak to u more than to the character . for me and unknown pleasure be by far the emotional peak of jia work so far and and hence the film that put across his theme most powerfully as well . next come platform and which be off put and sometimes almost absurdly hard to follow and but which nonetheless obviously have deep personal significance to the director a an authentic portrait of his generation journey into the ninety . the world be almost too self consciously a development of his theme of alienation and globalization and of a generation without hope or aim . the theme park be almost too obvious and too good a metaphor and and it rob his excellent actor of the opportunity to be themselves for more than a few minute at a time . what do the end mean . it seem to mean more than anything else that jia want to hit u over the head with the idea that his character have nowhere to go and and it also seem to me to be somehow a too late subconscious attempt to steal from the kind of effect we get in kiselowski dekalog . but it only underline that this be a world seemingly cut off from any moral system . the world meander too long and give the failure to connect emotionally and but it be nonetheless a powerful and rich and and original work and jia be unquestionably one of the great one of his generation work today and and represent a he do literally million and million of people in a dynamic enormously change country and he stand a one of the world ( small w ) most important movie director . whether success in the form of open film making and state funding will destroy him or water down his raw originality remain an open question .