Culture Reporter of Sheffield Documentary Festival
Fish + carries picturesTo say that Chinese women don’t matter.
With a shocking 30 million men than women, one of the most populous countries in the world have a flood without men.
Difficulties are fully grabbing against them found a date, let go of a wife – there’s much forced to do.
To make things worse, more difficult when you are from a low social class, according to the Chinese coach hao, with more than 3,000 clients.
“Most of them work in class – they are the least visible wives,” he said.
We found this first hand in Violet Du Feng documentary, where we look at Hao and three of his clients across the Camp Camp.
All of them, including Hao, from the poor, mountain backgrounds, and part of the generation of children in China, to go and work in towns.
That generation today are adults, and go to townships themselves to try to find the wife and raise their situation.
Du Feng, based in the US, wants his film to emphasize what life is for young generations in his homeland.
“At a time when the gender’s part is very bad, especially in China, how we bridge a gap and make a dialogue,” he told the BBC.
Fish + carries picturesThe three clients of Hao – Li, 24, Wu, Wu, and Zhou, 36 – fought after a child’s policy.
Government was set in 1980 when the population approached a billion, the policy was introduced among people who had many people affected the country’s economic growth.
but A traditional wish for boys who lead Many girls left, placed by orphans, choosing sex or even cases of cuso women. The result is greatly unbalanced by gender today.
China is very concerned about the influx of birth and aging in the population that it ends the policy in 2016, and holds regular matchmaking events.
Wu, Li and Zhou want to help them find a girlfriend at least.
He is a man who can seek, who will succeed in finding the wife, Wen, who is also a dating coach.
The men allowed the hao to give them ports and hairuts, while he told them his questionable “ways” for attracting women – online and in person.
But while everyone is trying their best, not everyone goes to plan.
Fish + carries picturesThe Hao built an image image for each person, but he had some boundaries how he described it, and Zhou thought it was feeling “fake”.
“I feel guilty to cheat others,” he said, that is uncomfortable uncontrollably as a person he does not match the reality.
Du Feng thinks this is a wider problem.
“It’s a wonderful story in China, but it’s also a universal story of how this digital scene, we all struggle with the digital world’s price, and after the price need to be paid to be true and honest,” he said.
Hao can be one of the “most popular coaches of China”, but we see his wife questioning some of his ways.
No fail, he sent his protections to meet women, spraying their deodorant arms, declaring: “This is the show!”
Men have to approach potential dates in a busy evening shopping center in Chongqing, one of the largest cities in the world.
Almost painful to look as they ask women to link by messaging app that is wechat.
But they taught them to dig their confidence within, who, so far, hid from view.
Getty imagesDr Zheng Mu, from the National University of Sonapore Department, tells the BBC how to get rattan can affect men.
“In China, marriage or ability, financial and social, to marry as the main bread,” he said.
“As a result, the difficulty of considering marriage can be a social stigma, indicating that they cannot and deserve the pressures and thinking.”
Zhou didn’t block how much dates cost him, including pay for matchmakers, dinner and new clothes.
“I just made $ 600 (£ 440) a month,” he said, found a date of cost about $ 300.
“Finally our destiny is determined by society,” he added, decided he needed to “strengthen my situation”.
Du Feng explained: “It’s a generation where many more greater men are defined as failures because of their economic status.
“They saw that under the society, the class of worker, and therefore the one who married was a sign that they would succeed.”
We know that a way for Chinese men to “break the social class” is to join the army, and see a large recruitment drive that is happening in the film.
Fish + carries picturesThe film is bad exploration of what life is for gay men in China.
Du Feng agreed that society of chins is less accepting gay men, while Dr. Mu added: “In China, most hetsonormativity most rules.
“As a result, men are expected to marry women to meet the criteria … to support the nuclear family and develop in larger families by becoming parents.”
Technology also has documentaries, which explores the increasing popularity of virtual boyfriends, saying that more than 10 million women in China are playing online games.
We can even see a virtual boyfriend in action – he’s understanding, inexact and immovable handsome.
A woman said that life dating costs, money, money, emotional energy – very tired “.
He added that “virtual males differ – there are many habits, they are perfect” perfect “.
Dr Mu saw this trend as “
“Virtual Boyfriends, which can become better in accordance with the expected women’s values, can be a way for them to fulfill their romantic imaginations.”
Du Feng increases: “The thing mentioned in the whole world is that women with virtual boyfriends feel like Chinese men are not strong emotionally.”
His film was digging into the backgrounds of the men, including their frequent broken relationships with their parents and family.
“These people come from it, and have a lot of negative pressure on them – How can you expect them to be emotionally strong?”
Getty imagesReuters reported last year that the “long-term lifestyle gradually becomes more widespread in China”.
“I’m worried about how we connect each other now, especially the younger generation,” as Du Feng.
“Dating is just a device for us to talk about it. But I’m really worried.
“My film is about how we can live with this epidemic of loneliness, with all who seek to find connections with each other.”
So at the end of the documentary, with many occasional times, we see it is something a realistic journey found in self-found for all men, including hao.
“I think it’s about heat as they meet each other, know that it is a collective crisis that they all face, and how they see hope,” as Du Feng.
“For them, more about finding themselves and find someone to gather on their shoulders, saying, ‘I see you, and there’s a way you can do it’.”
Screen Daily’s Allan Hunter says The film “backed by the person who has found by Du Feng with each of the individuals we know and understand the better”, add it “to the end greeting yourself”.
The Hao is over: “Once you want yourself, it’s easier to get the girls you want.”
Dating game is in selected cinemas in the UK this autumn.


