One of the few films that I liked as well as the book. Perhaps it's because the author of the book, Sijie Dai, also wrote the screenplay & directed the movie.The Three Gorges Dam project has been mentioned in several books & films about modern China that I have read or seen. The movie Up the Yangtze is one example. The book River Town by Peter Hessler is another.
It was even included in the ending of this film, though it was not mentioned in the novel. The book was published in 1980. The dam project happened in the mid-1990's. & the film was released in 2002.
Most of what I've been seeing about the Three Gorges Dam has been negative. It is one of the largest man-made projects in the world, supplying electrical power to millions of people, but no one seems to like it. & I didn't even hear about it until last year.
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