Mardi Gras: Made in China
by David Redmon
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Director: David RedmonBrand: WEA DES Moines Video
Composer: Matthew Dougherty
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 74 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Carnivalesque Films
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- Winner of twenty national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the naked streets of New Orleans during Carnival where revelers party and exchange beads for sexual acts to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is t
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Summary: 4 Stars
Documentarian David Redmon explores both the manufacture and ephemeral use of those cheap, tacky beads thrown to drunken and whorish revelers during Mardi Gras, revealing both the determination and hardship of the Chinese who make them and the trashy vapidity of Americans who briefly wear them before discarding them. Candid interviews with the earthy factory workers who expertly churn out hundreds of thousands of beads, the factory's domineering (though not entirely unscrupulous) owner, a stateside importer and a variety of brain-dead, flagrantly ignorant Merkun recipients staggering through filthy Nawlins (shortly before the hand of God smote it) illustrate what John Maynard Keynes, Deng Xiaoping, the globalist perversion of capitalist markets and the decline of American civilization have wrought.
Admirably, Redmon treats all of his subjects with respect, granting them opportunities to explain their backgrounds, circumstances and perspectives. Poverty and excess are predictably contrasted, as is the polite reservation of the Chinese with the obnoxious slobbering of their American customers. All of the usual points are touched on: the outrageous exploitation of a working class in a developing market, the tawdry waste of American society and the enormous cultural gap that separates the two. However, Redmon also unintentionally conveys a common affliction of the working, owning and consuming classes that's so endemic of modernity: none of these people have any great sense of purpose. Without ideology or dogma, these people are free to define themselves through individual experience and personal preference, but they lack that enriching, resolute momentum that political, social and religious movements once instilled in the peasantry, an impetus that only a select few can generate for themselves, especially in a world in which corporate and governmental dominance too often squashes entrepreneurial ambition.
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