{"id":1079,"date":"2017-09-18T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T11:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:58:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:58:40","slug":"double-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellaraidel.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Double Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Double Happiness, 74 Min., 2014, DCP, (Subtitles available: german, english, chinese)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doublehappiness.at\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.doublehappiness.at<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; visit also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Double-Happiness-509137092555617\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/103542160\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Among the Chinese \u201cdouble happiness\u201d refers to the happiness that\u2019s increased twofold when a couple decides to spend the rest of their lives together. Ella Raidel chose this beautiful and optimistic concept as the title of her first full-length documentary. But, calling it a documentary possibly isn\u2019t fitting, and it\u2019s certainly not like the conventional kind of report on globalization. On the contrary, this is an extremely pointed film essay made with a great deal of sensitivity and a fine touch.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Starting with the widely known fact that \u201cthe Chinese\u201d near the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen have more or less rebuilt to scale the Upper-Austrian tourist attraction of Hallstatt, or at least parts of it, Raidel takes an extremely precise look at contemporary China which shows she\u2019s completely unimpressed by the opposites characterizing the West\u2019s current view of the country. This view leaves little latitude between breathless admiration for the economic powerhouse and trite criticism of the \u201cpolitical conditions.\u201d Thanks to a few intelligent observations and with the aid of an excellent selection of interviewees, most of them from the fields of architecture and urban planning, the result is a panorama of a country at a delicate point in time in its political, social and economic development.<br \/>\nLike every good film, this one poses more important questions than it answers \u2014 such as concerning the relationship between tradition, the modern age and the future; between the reality and late-capitalist dreams; and between essential progress and environmental protection. \u201cDouble happiness\u201d would also be produced by a \u201cwedding\u201d of these aspects, some of which seem almost irreconcilable. <em>(Andreas Ungerb\u00f6ck)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the Chinese \u201cdouble happiness\u201d refers to the happiness that\u2019s increased twofold when a couple decides to spend the rest of their lives together. Ella Raidel chose this beautiful and optimistic concept as the title of her first full-length documentary. But, calling it a documentary possibly isn\u2019t fitting, and it\u2019s certainly not like the conventional kind of report on globalization. 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