Up the Yangtze

A documentary about the Yangtze River in China, the Three Gorges Dam project, and riding and working on a cruise ship going up the river. We get a glimpse of real life in China. "China is too hard for common people," cries a storeowner. We see the lives of people who work on the cruise ship, catering to the whims of weird tourists, and how most of the workers come from poor rural families who can't afford to support their children. It's informative in a PBS kind of way.

The ending seems nice at first, a slow montage of scenes, showing the passage of time, the displacement of people, the rising of the water. But it lasts ten minutes, which is way too long to be forced to meditate at the end of a movie.