Year of the Fish

The Olympics came to a close last Sunday night, with China once again showing the world just how freakin’ great it is (and scary, too!) at harnessing the manpower of a kajillion people to put on quite a spectacular synchronized show. But this weekend, a very different kind of Chinese story opens in theaters with Year of the Fish.

Year of the Fish is done in that dreamy fashion where real actors are in the scenes but then sort of watercolor-painted over—technically it’s called rotoscoped animation, but we’ll always just think of it as the Waking Life effect. The film opens with a giant red fish, who eyeballs the camera and opens his fishy mouth to intone, “Chinatown.  read more »