electric shadow be such a little treasure that i want to plug it in to every film lover i know . the comparison to italy cinema paradiso be apt in the most important way because it all about how movie enrich the life of a child . in other way and the film be so vastly different from writer or director giuseppi tornatore lovely work and which be quintessentially italian represent big with emotion and architecture and color and performance and length and budget . in this short and seemingly simple chinese film and lack be everywhere and from the miss father to the life these character lead represent where they live and work and what they have to eat and how they get around ( the bus in which sister escort her baby brother be a perfect case in point ) . yet thanks to a style that be warm and honest and rich and especially gentle and a story full of quite awful happening be tell in such a way that whatever director or co writer jiang xiao offer u and include some pretty heavy coincidence and we gratefully accept because all of it work beautifully toward her goal of celebrate film and family and friendship . her achievement be all the more surprising because the movie her first and and film and it would appear and on an awfully small budget start out simply and charmingly then quietly build until it reach a conclusion that tie everything together without a whiff of heavy hand melodrama or overkill . in the special feature and the director explain her purpose and how she come to film making and and her hope to do something worthy for the major anniversary of chinese film . i can not imagine a good gift to the country and it grow film industry and or the widening world of international film lover . enjoy .