New Reply

Post a Reply

Thread: Love's dark side: Money and betrayal

Title: (100 characters at most)

Content: ( 3,000 characters at most, please )

You can add emoticons below to your post by clicking them.

[quote=GUESTNEST,270383]A review from Shanghai Daily:
In a fast-changing society, people wonder if true love still exists: When you can get anything with money, can you also buy love?

This is debated in the play "13 Million Single Bathtubs" underway at the Shanghai Drama Arts Theater. It depicts the very realistic - or rather, materialistic - point of view that China's young generation takes toward their relationships. The number "13 million" has no special significance but indicates there are many many singles.

Like many young people in Beijing, Lemon, a 26-year-old white-collar worker who comes from a small city, works very hard to survive in the metropolis. She and her poet lover, Strawberry, are deeply in love but are too poor to get married. When Lemon meets Xu Baixiao, Strawberry's old friend who heads a business empire, she doesn't think twice.

Lemon relentlessly pursues him. In the end, she manages to marry Xu although it's crystal clear to her that he is selfish, pretentious and unlovable. All she needs are money and a better life. Love, on the other hand, can be sacrificed.

The play's message: The sad fact of China's young generation is that all their dreams seemingly can be measured by material things. On their wish list are nothing but LV bags, the latest gadgets, designer clothes and newest video games.

It is also very difficult to teach a only child how to love another person as much as he or she loves himself or herself. At the end of the day, everyone feels so lonely, just like the three main characters in the play.

According to director Xu Sixian, people nowadays have less and less time to face themselves - the bathroom is the last oasis and refuge where they can relax and think.

"A bathtub is like one's little pool in the desert, namely an industrial city like Beijing that is filled with dusts," he says.

[/quote]

characters left

Name:

Get a new code