Stephen Maing's muckraking documentary
High Tech, Low Life has a wonderful subject and sublime execution despite its awful, cloying title -- Maing constructs and presents intertwined biographical profiles of two extraordinary Chinese men who have devoted their lives to social improvement via Internet blogging activities: twentysomething Zhou "Zola" Shuguang and 57-year-old Zhang "Tiger Temple" Shihe. At the outset of the picture, Zola confesses that he's only interested in the Internet for easy celebrity and self-aggrandizement, and claims to harbor no innate understanding of what "journalism" entails, but his activities and instincts suggest the opposite: Blo...
Released:
2012
Rated:
n/a
Length:
87 mins