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July 29, 2005
Inside baseball in an elevator: Ebert on Rosenbaum on The World
Ending his 3-star review of Jia Zhangke's The World, an exploration of time and space in a suburban Beijing theme park, Roger Ebert tells a personal tale: "After the screening, I rode down on the elevator with the great film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. "I've seen it five times... It's one of my favorite films. I still don't understand the ending." I was not only afraid to ask him what he didn't understand about the ending, I was afraid to ask him what he thought the ending was. In a sense, The World is about a story that never really begins." [Notably, Ebert does not use the word "simulacrum." Not once.]
Posted by at July 29, 2005 04:44 PM
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