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roddy -

25th May: 北京人在纽约 - Jiang Wen stars in a tale of Chinese emigrants making their way in
New York
Youku
Emule

This is a really nice show I think. We get to meet new arrivals in New York, 王启明 and wife
郭燕, following them from an incomprehensible airport to a dingy basement, picking up debts and
scaring off good Samaritans on the way. I'm sure plenty of us on here related to 王启明's
communication issues through the show.

We also get to meet a few supporting characters - the 无情无义 restaurant boss, the evil
sweatshop owner (who is that guy, I'm sure I've seen him elsewhere.)

I'm quite tempted to watch more of this, I'm keen to see how our friends make out. I think I've
watched a few episodes before but didn't get very far, possibly as at the time the lack of
subtitles was more of a hindrance. This time I'd say it's pretty easy to understand - the language
is all fairly standard and it isn't delivered very quickly.

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imron -

I watched all of this series way back when it was first mentioned on the forums and found it
overall quite interesting, although in some places the story seems to jump around a bit and major
plot points seem to just happen out of thin air. One of the final scenes (perhaps the final one? I
forget) is quite interesting, as everything has come full-circle and you have 王启明 picking up
a friend from the airport and basically dumping him in the same place he was dumped in all those
years ago.

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