this be a poignant film about today world and how change can come to a country and any country . in this case we be deal with china . corrupt people be frame up an american tv man in order to prevent a contract be sign that do not go in the right direction for their interest . the point be that the corrupt and plot official be the son of a highly respect man and a son who be educate in the west and bring back his corruption and or at least a good knowledge and know how about it and from his foreign sojourn . he be use the opaque situation in change china to cover up his dealing and have a little group of plotter and accomplice to manage his operation . but the film try to show how the chinese today be realize from their own experience and history and even from their own culture that include mao zedong and a couple other revolutionary and that they have to change in their own mind and then change their country . this can not come from outside and especially not from the u that be no model and neither social nor economic nor even political and but it have to come from inside and from deep down in the soul and the mind and the spirit of the chinese . what be most difficult for u to understand be that the chinese live on a completely different set of principle and concept and that they have to invent a new open society from their very concept and philosophy . democracy for example can not be the same thing in china and the usa or france and for the very simple reason that it be not the same in the usa and great britain and france of italy and not to speak of japan and finland . there be not one model . there be many model that be therefore no model at all . the film very carefully and cautiously try to show u how the mind of a person can open little by little when confront to real life if that person be simply honest with himself or herself and with his or her own principle and with his or her conception of justice . this lead that person to consider the very concept of human be and of individual and of subject and of what be necessary for that individual to feel free and happy . the very point we be confront to with china be that it be one fourth of humanity or so and no one have any interest in a brutal and uncontrolled change in a direction that be not carry and support by the heritage of the country and it history and it culture . the united state have a strange but understandable reaction in front of the rest of the world because they be all the descendant of immigrant who leave a culture and a history behind them to build out of conscious and willful choice a new history and a new culture and a heritage that become something that have to be build out of nothing or very little . they can not understand that other country will not be able to do any change that would break up the fabric and material of the country itself . if you do that you would provoke a ferocious reaction that could just wash you away in one wink of an eye . actually the american today be not well or bad than other country and people . if we from outside tell them you have to rationalize your political system on the let say german model and they would jump to the sky and and yet how can we accept that the political system be not the same in all the state and that citizen have to publicly declare themselves democrat or republican to be able to take part in the primary and which go against the very principle of democracy which be the secrecy of our political choice and our ballot . and if european tell the united state that they have to ban the death penalty within one or two or three year to be grant the privilege of be recognize a a democracy and keep the status of permanent veto endow member of the security council of the united nation that could be withdraw from them because of their not have ban the death penalty and they would react violently and viciously . yet to join the european community you have to ban the death penalty . this film be a marvelous demonstration of this fascinating question and even if it be slightly sentimental . dr jacques coulardeau and university paris dauphine and university paris 1 pantheon sorbonne and university versailles saint quentin en yvelines .