Watching TV with the Red Chinese
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  • Summary: When Tzu, Wa and Chen come to New York City in the summer of 1980 to study, they find themselves in a strange land far, far away from life in communist China. Consuming a heavy daily diet of American T.V., they are captivated by the cacophonous culture surrounding them. They make friends with their next-door neighbor Dexter, his sometimes girlfriend Suzanne and the struggling filmmaker Billy. They party. One falls dangerously in love. But a brutal mugging and an ex-boyfriend’s crazed jealousy plunge them into a state of cultural confusion and fear. When, on December 8, 1980, John Lennon is murdered, the trio fatefully confronts the social violence that surrounds them. (Roam Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 0 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 4 out of 8
  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    Jan 19, 2012
    60
    This quirky indie has an off-kilter, shaggy appeal and a filling story.
  2. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
    Jan 29, 2012
    60
    So Watching TV is less a story loosely bound by cause and effect than a kind of scrapbook of memories, all of which convey the concerns of being super smart and mostly confused in a culturally mixed Manhattan, circa 1980. The affection is sweet and precise, if even the terms we use to define them aren't.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Daniel M. Gold
    Jan 19, 2012
    60
    The film nicely captures the grad-student vibe: beer-fueled bull sessions about science, religion, probability and destiny; fragile, self-absorbed egos preening even as confidence wavers.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Andrew Schenker
    Jan 17, 2012
    38
    The first half of the film is a virtual compendium of high-culture references, topical concerns addressed almost in passing, and narrative fracturing devices.

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