The Great Wall

March. 23,2015      
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6.7
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‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, at Europe’s heavily militarised south-eastern frontier, begins this film. In the shadow of its own narratives of freedom, Europe has been quietly building its own great wall. Like its famous Chinese precursor, this wall has been piecemeal in construction, diverse in form and dubious in utility. Gradually cohering across the continent, this system of enclosure and exclusion is urged upon a populace seemingly willing to accept its necessity and to contribute to its building.

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Lawbolisted
2015/03/23

Powerful

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Baseshment
2015/03/24

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Glucedee
2015/03/25

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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AnhartLinkin
2015/03/26

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

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