E assim aconteceu...

[Natureza Morta] Sem ser o filme chinês que mais apreciei, é uma obra interessante do ponto de vista visual. Vale, essencialmente, como expressão das trasformações a que a China moderna está envolvida. O mega projecto da Barragem das Três Gargantas é o cenário central desta obra, que fugazmente o realizador aproveitou para denunciar os desrespeitos sociais.

Escreve o The New York Times sobre o filme:

"This may sound like a prescription for social cinema, but Mr. Jia’s interest lies in visual ideas and human behavior, not agendas. Elegantly photographed by Yu Likwai in high-definition digital video, the movie opens with a series of nearly seamless, seemingly contiguous lateral pans across men, women and children congregated in a boat on the Yangtze near the dam. The camera sweeps across the passengers slowly enough so that you can see each person alternately laughing, chattering and in repose. After exploring the formal possibilities of the long shot in his breakthrough film, "Plataform" (2000), Mr. Jia has again started to edge near his characters. In “Still Life” he uses human bodies as moving space, to borrow Michelangelo Antonioni´s peerless phrase, but with enormous tenderness".