Review of Total Trust (2023)
Seen in 2024.
The families of two activists are oppressed in the mainland Chinese surveillance state.
The subject matter of surveillance under authoritarianism is interesting, but because of the way this film was shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, it sheds very little light on its subject. Most of the runtime is instead spent on boring everyday life, with little to be learned. Prefer “China’s Social Credit Lab” (2019).